 | United States - 1819 - 524 pages
...flag, have been torn from their country, and from every thing dear to them ; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation, and exposed, under...distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the hattles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking away those of their own... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 976 pages
...have been torn from their country, and from every thing dear to them, — have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation, and exposed, under...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against... | |
 | John Brannan - United States - 1823 - 510 pages
...flag, have been torn from their country and from every thing dear to them ; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation, and exposed, under...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. Against this crying enormity which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against... | |
 | John Brannan - United States - 1823 - 522 pages
...flag, have been torn from their country and from every thing dear to them ; have been dragged on boaru ships of war of a foreign nation, and exposed, under...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. Against this crying enormity which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against... | |
 | John Brannan - United States - 1823 - 520 pages
...flag, have been torn from their country and from every thing dear to them ; have been dragged on boaro ships of war of a foreign nation, and exposed, under the severities of their disci- , pline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk ' their lives in the battles... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1811 - 650 pages
...flag, have been torn from their country, and from everything dear to them ; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation ; and exposed, under...their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and Relations with Great Britain. deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1835 - 544 pages
...have been torn from their country, and from every thing " dear to them, — have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation, " and exposed, under...melancholy instruments of taking away those of their own bretb" ren. — Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt " to avenge if... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...flag, have been tore from their country and every thing dear to them ; have been dragged on board of ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. Against this crying enormity which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them ; have been dragged on board of ships of war of a foreign nation, and exposed under...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. " Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 732 pages
...public law and their national flag, had been torn from their country — had been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation — and exposed,...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren." •14. <On the same subject the committee remarked, that, "while t:Dtc'^rff the practice is continued,... | |
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British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them; have been dragged... 
