...met, and the president's message was decidedly hostile. It began by charging that British cruisers had been in the continued practice of violating the American...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. This was the first time the government of the United States had alleged impressment as its chief grievance,...

...met, and the president's message was decidedly hostile. It began by charging that British cruisers had been in the continued practice of violating the American...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. This was the first time the government of the United States had alleged impressment as its chief grievance,...

..."Madison, inverting the order of complaints previously alleged, began by charging that British cruisers had been 'in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of sei/ing and carrying off persons sailing under it.' The charge was amply proved, was not denied, and...

...of acts hostile to the United Slates as an independent and neutral nation. 425 British cruizershavc been in the continued practice of violating the American...and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in tie exercise of :i belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of .a municipal...

...Madison, inverting the order of complaints previously alleged, began by charging that British cruisers had been "in the continued practice of violating the American...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it." The charge was amply proved, was not denied, and warranted war; but this was the first time that the...

...heretofore laid before them on the subject of our affairs with Great Britain . . . British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the...

...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the...

...on the frontier. Madison summarized America's case in his war message to Congress: British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against the enemy, but a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended...

...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation: "British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing on it ... thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag,...

...Message of President Madison to the Congress, 1st June, 1812, relative to the dispute with. England, I communicate to Congress certain documents, being...belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an спешу, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended...