| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...expression of their sense of the virtues of captain Lawrence, civil and military, the senate resolve, " that in a war, like the present, waged without justifiable...conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not 6 e coming a moral and religious people to ex pr ess any approbation of military «nd naval ei-ploHs,... | |
| 1813 - 560 pages
...senate of Massachusetts, and agreed to. ' " Resolved, as the sense of the senate of Massachusetts, that in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause, and prosecuted in a manner that indicates that conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a moral and religious... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 742 pages
...present unjust, unneccusiiry, ami ˇnujuitout trar," and it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Qtiincy, "that, in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause, and on the ground of conquest and ambition, it was not becoming a moral and religious People to express... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1835 - 674 pages
...Lawrence, in the words following1, viz: *' ' Jlaolvcd, As the sense of the Senate of Massachusetts, that, in a war like the present, waged without justifiable...not becoming a moral and religious people to express my approbation of military or naval exploits which are not immediately connected with the defence of... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1837 - 740 pages
...capture of the British vess.l IVncock; denouncing the late war, and declaring that it was not becoming in a moral and religious people to express any approbation of military or naval exploits wnich were not immediately connected with the def« nee of our seacoaet. Some ten years afterwards,... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1852 - 776 pages
...cause, and prosecuted in a manner indicating that conquest and ambition were its real motives, it was not becoming a moral and religious people to express any approbation of military and naval exploits not immediately connected with the defense of our sea-coast and soil." Through the... | |
| J. T. Headley - Canada History War of 1812 - 1853 - 370 pages
...commendations encouraged the continuance of the war. " Hesol/ved, as the sense of the Senate of Massachusetts, that in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause, and prosecuted in a manner showing that conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a moral people to express... | |
| Rushmore G. Horton - Campaign literature - 1856 - 454 pages
...of the British Tessel Peacock ; denouncing the late war, and declaring that it was not becoming in a moral and religious people to express any approbation of military or naval exploits which were not immediately connected with the defence of our sea coast. Some ten years afterwards, a succeeding... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...be obviated," the following resolution was offered : ля the sense of the Senate of Massachusetts, that, in a war like the present, waged without justifiable...any approbation of military or naval exploits which »W not immediately connected with the defence of our seacoast and soil." CHAP. IX.] KESOLUTION OF... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...present, waged withont justifiable cause, and prosecnted in a mauner which indicates that conqnest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a moral and religious people to express any approhation of military or naval exploits, which are not immediately counected with the defence of... | |
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