 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. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,...  A Library of American Literature... - Page 284by Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888Full view - About this book
 | William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, arid 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... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - America - 1804 - 432 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled to the most barbarous dgts, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He. has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear anus against thejr country, lo become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 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 bean arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1806 - 392 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...has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...cruelty and perfidity, scarcely parallelled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the heart 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... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1819 - 324 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most harbarous ages, ani I totally unworthy t:ie head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow...insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the in ,ubitiuti of our tronuers, the merciless Indian savages, whuse Krfo.vn rule of warfare is an undistinguished... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pages
...thetnseh'es by their hands. In place of the three paragraphs erased, the two following were introduced: [He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive...and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of oar frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known role of warfare is an undistinguished destruction,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...saved him. The fact is referred to in that paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which says, ' 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... | |
 | Connecticut - Law - 1821 - 536 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...has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction... | |
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