 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
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 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... | |
 | Kansas - Law - 1861 - 344 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... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 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,... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 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... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 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 merci. less Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 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... | |
 | James William Massie - Slavery - 1864 - 534 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... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1865 - 340 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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1865 - 388 pages
...scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.1 29. 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... | |
 | United States - 1866 - 628 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbareas ages, ami totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow -citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arm» against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
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