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" ... courts, no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets ; whilst arguments are employed, in support of these aggressions,... "
The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany - Page 630
1812
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Readings in American History

David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets, whilst arguments...regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations, and these accumulating...
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Jan.-March, 1917

World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 680 pages
...industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations » • • whilst arguments are employed in support of the.se...regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever. In summing up " these progressive usurpations and these accumulating wrongs," he said: We behold, in...
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British and Foreign State Papers

Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1841 - 888 pages
...instruments of arbitrary Edicts, and their unfortunate Crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled, in British Ports, into British Fleets : whilst arguments are employed in support of thèse aggressions, which hâve no foundations but in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate...
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British and Foreign State Papers

Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1812 - 960 pages
...British Fleets: whilst arguments are employed in support of these aggressions, which have no foundations but in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate...side of Great Britain, a state of War against The Uuited States; and on the side of The United States, a state of Peace towards Great Britain. Whether...
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Document-based Assessment Activities for U.S. History Classes

Kenneth Hilton - Education - 1999 - 138 pages
...behold our vessels . . . wrested [taken] from their lawful destinations ... in [to] British ports. . . . We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States . . . According to this excerpt from President Madison's Declaration of War, what seemed to be the...
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James Madison

Andrew Santella - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 74 pages
...message to the US Congress. Madison wrote that the United States had tried to be peaceful, but "we behold on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States." Madison believed the United States had no choice but to declare war on Great Britain. "Peace as we...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

English poetry - 1812 - 1092 pages
...arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in lintish ports into British fleets ; • whilst arguments are...whatsoever. , We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Brit.'iin, a state of war against the United Stales : and, on the side of the United Suites, a state...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 5

Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets ; whilst arguments...support of these aggressions, which have no foundation out in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate our external comteerce in all cases whatsoever....
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State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States from the Accession ...

Public law - 1815 - 738 pages
...instruments of arbitrary ediets ; and their unfortunate erews dispersed and lost, or foreed or inveigled, in British ports, into British fleets; whilst arguments are employed, in support of these aggressions, whieh have no foundation but in a prineiple, equally supporting a elaim to regulate our external eommeree,...
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Cobbett's Political Register VOL.XXI From January to June,1812

Cobbett's Political Register VOL.XXI From January to June,1812 - 1812 - 788 pages
...employed iu upport of these aggressions, which have 10 foundation but in a principle equally upporting a claim to regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever. We lehold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the...
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