State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession of George Washington to the Presidency: Exhibiting a Complete View of Our Foreign Relations Since that Time ...Thomas B. Wait, 1819 - United States |
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... British government · · 444 Report of committee relative to excitements of Indians by British . June 13 , 1812 445 Message , June 15 , 1812 , transmitting letters between Se- cretary of State and Mr. Foster 474 Message , June 16,1812 ...
... British government · · 444 Report of committee relative to excitements of Indians by British . June 13 , 1812 445 Message , June 15 , 1812 , transmitting letters between Se- cretary of State and Mr. Foster 474 Message , June 16,1812 ...
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... British government shall have determined not to remove those obstructions with all practicable promptitude , I trust that my government will be apprized , with as little delay as possible , of a determination so unexpected , and of such ...
... British government shall have determined not to remove those obstructions with all practicable promptitude , I trust that my government will be apprized , with as little delay as possible , of a determination so unexpected , and of such ...
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... British government will be in a situation to admit of such proceedings on its own part and on mine as the occasion will require . From lord Wellesley's intimation to me on the 28th of August , ( mentioned above ) it is perfectly clear ...
... British government will be in a situation to admit of such proceedings on its own part and on mine as the occasion will require . From lord Wellesley's intimation to me on the 28th of August , ( mentioned above ) it is perfectly clear ...
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... British government would be eager to follow the example of France in recal ling , as it had professed to do in promulgating , that extra- ordinary system of maritime annoyance which , in 1807 , presented to neutral trade in almost all ...
... British government would be eager to follow the example of France in recal ling , as it had professed to do in promulgating , that extra- ordinary system of maritime annoyance which , in 1807 , presented to neutral trade in almost all ...
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... British government cannot be questioned ; since it is precisely that in which its own numerous orders for esta- blishing , modifying or removing blockades and other mari- time obstructions , are usually proclaimed to neutral states and ...
... British government cannot be questioned ; since it is precisely that in which its own numerous orders for esta- blishing , modifying or removing blockades and other mari- time obstructions , are usually proclaimed to neutral states and ...
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Page 12 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 368 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain.
Page 368 - ... belligerents; and more especially that the British cabinet would not, for the sake of a precarious and surreptitious intercourse with hostile markets, have persevered in a course of measures which necessarily put at hazard the invaluable market of a great and growing country, disposed to cultivate the mutual advantages of an active commerce.
Page 59 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of 'His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Page 362 - British Cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Page 12 - No higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe...
Page 364 - ... nations, in peace as well as in war, and betraying the insincerity of those professions which inculcated a belief that, having resorted to her orders with regret, she was anxious to find an occasion for putting an end to them. Abandoning still more all respect for the neutral rights of the United States and for its own consistency, the British...
Page 367 - Negotiation with which he was charged, a Secret Agent of his Government was employed in intrigues, having for their object a subversion of our Government, and a dismemberment of our happy Union. In reviewing the conduct of Great Britain towards The United States, our attention is necessarily drawn to the Warfare just renewed by the- Savages on one of our extensive Frontiers...
Page 165 - That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Page 46 - With this evidence of hostile inflexibility in trampling on rights which no independent nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations.