 He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the...  Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams ... - Page 172by John Adams - 1823 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 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... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Banks and banking - 1831 - 280 pages
...become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is, an undistinguished destruction... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - Atlantic States - 1833 - 306 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 executio.iers of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
 | Readers - 1833 - 224 pages
...become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. 23. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is, an undistinguished destruction... | |
 | United States - 1834 - 426 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... | |
 | William Linn - Presidents - 1834 - 284 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1834 - 644 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1834 - 646 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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