The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important Events of the Time; Public Laws and Official Documents, Volume 2editor., 1814 - United States Containing political essays on the most important events of the time; public laws and official documents. |
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... common schools , 161 concerning infants , 47 Circular , committee of defence , Clinton , mayor , charge , 328 265 remarks , 266 inspectors of beef and pork , 48 Cobbett , 103. 121 auctioneers , ib . Cochrane to Monroe , 287 trials of ...
... common schools , 161 concerning infants , 47 Circular , committee of defence , Clinton , mayor , charge , 328 265 remarks , 266 inspectors of beef and pork , 48 Cobbett , 103. 121 auctioneers , ib . Cochrane to Monroe , 287 trials of ...
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... common council , 218 Rotterdam paper , 204 Royal education in Sweden , 201 Rush , attorney - general , letter , Public meeting , 209 remarks on , 210 S Resolutions of committee of defence , 206 Saratoga Journal , remarks on , ib . Scott ...
... common council , 218 Rotterdam paper , 204 Royal education in Sweden , 201 Rush , attorney - general , letter , Public meeting , 209 remarks on , 210 S Resolutions of committee of defence , 206 Saratoga Journal , remarks on , ib . Scott ...
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... common coun- to receive or resist this prediction . But try . What I am about to say therefore I may be permitted to remark , that if is advanced with real diffidenee and hesi- there be any good sense in this idea , then our war must ...
... common coun- to receive or resist this prediction . But try . What I am about to say therefore I may be permitted to remark , that if is advanced with real diffidenee and hesi- there be any good sense in this idea , then our war must ...
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... common sense , if not perplexed by diplomatic ver- biage . The influence of the politicians who are for To understand the whole , it is necessary to exterminating the Indians , in the west and have some distinct views of the respective ...
... common sense , if not perplexed by diplomatic ver- biage . The influence of the politicians who are for To understand the whole , it is necessary to exterminating the Indians , in the west and have some distinct views of the respective ...
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... common sense , that not one dollar should be granted to support a war for latent objects . We are now again at war with the mistress But there will be , I fear , another and a of the ocean . A war which , whatever we most serious ...
... common sense , that not one dollar should be granted to support a war for latent objects . We are now again at war with the mistress But there will be , I fear , another and a of the ocean . A war which , whatever we most serious ...
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Page 29 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.
Page 305 - Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.
Page 114 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 200 - The Desolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his own ! Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone...
Page 200 - But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!
Page 287 - Canadas to aid him in carrying into effect measures of retaliation against the inhabitants of the United States for the wanton destruction committed by their army in Upper Canada, it has become...
Page 114 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Page 46 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 200 - Thine evil deeds are writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain : If thou hadst died, as honor dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again; But who would soar the solar height, To set in such a starless night?
Page 200 - Foredoomed by God — by man accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst, The very Fiend's arch mock ! He, in his fall preserved his pride, And, if a mortal; had as proudly died!