The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important Events of the Time; Public Laws and Official Documents, Volume 2editor., 1814 - United States Containing political essays on the most important events of the time; public laws and official documents. |
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... cabinet at Washington , and its base instruments throughout the union , hang their heads with shame , now that brought us into our present deplorable con- dition , let us calmly and intrepidly con- template its real features ; let us ...
... cabinet at Washington , and its base instruments throughout the union , hang their heads with shame , now that brought us into our present deplorable con- dition , let us calmly and intrepidly con- template its real features ; let us ...
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... cabinet bunglers have re- duced us to a condition , in which our . hopes of peace can receive support but from two considerations . First : A gene- The territorial independence of the United States is yet deemed secure . The rights of ...
... cabinet bunglers have re- duced us to a condition , in which our . hopes of peace can receive support but from two considerations . First : A gene- The territorial independence of the United States is yet deemed secure . The rights of ...
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... cabinet is as moderate , as it has been represented presumptuous and arrogant ; un- less it is as impartially and disinterestedly just , as it has been represented wicked and oppressive ; unless it is as magnanimous , as it has been ...
... cabinet is as moderate , as it has been represented presumptuous and arrogant ; un- less it is as impartially and disinterestedly just , as it has been represented wicked and oppressive ; unless it is as magnanimous , as it has been ...
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... cabinet and the leaders of the cabinet party , are so ignorant of maritime concerns as not to know , that this is essentially disadvantageous to the Yet the war is not for the benefit of sailors of the United States , as distinguished ...
... cabinet and the leaders of the cabinet party , are so ignorant of maritime concerns as not to know , that this is essentially disadvantageous to the Yet the war is not for the benefit of sailors of the United States , as distinguished ...
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... cabinet projects " prized of it , he will apply , to annoying us , about suspending hostilities . It is seen in ex- " the means now employed in his own de ecutive messages and reports . It has pre- " fence ; and will , moreover , have ...
... cabinet projects " prized of it , he will apply , to annoying us , about suspending hostilities . It is seen in ex- " the means now employed in his own de ecutive messages and reports . It has pre- " fence ; and will , moreover , have ...
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Page 29 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.
Page 305 - Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.
Page 114 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 200 - The Desolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his own ! Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone...
Page 200 - But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!
Page 287 - Canadas to aid him in carrying into effect measures of retaliation against the inhabitants of the United States for the wanton destruction committed by their army in Upper Canada, it has become...
Page 114 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Page 46 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 200 - Thine evil deeds are writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain : If thou hadst died, as honor dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again; But who would soar the solar height, To set in such a starless night?
Page 200 - Foredoomed by God — by man accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst, The very Fiend's arch mock ! He, in his fall preserved his pride, And, if a mortal; had as proudly died!