He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. The American Commonwealth - Page 286by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1906 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Lieber - Democracy - 1853 - 842 pages
...against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall them selves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known... | |
| Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high sea?, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren,... | |
| Oregon - Law - 1855 - 670 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| John Warner Barber - United States - 1856 - 514 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or fall... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1860 - 524 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. " He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| John Warner Barber - United States - 1860 - 478 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or fall... | |
| Kansas - Law - 1861 - 344 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow...excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule... | |
| George Washington Bacon - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 116 pages
...against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrection...has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction... | |
| Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
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