 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...  Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 2171812Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Emerson - History, Modern - 1906 - 464 pages
...open war. On June 1 he sent his recommendation to Congress. In it he charged that British cruisers had been "in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing persons sailing under it; that British cruisers also violated the process of the courts, and... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...series of acts, hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; . . . The practice . . . is so far from affecting British subjects alone, that, under pretext of searching... | |
 | Edwin Emerson, Jr. - 1910 - 462 pages
...open war. On June 1 he sent his recommendation to Congress. In it he charged that British cruisers had been "in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing persons sailing under it; that British cruisers also violated the process of the courts, and... | |
 | Canada - 1911 - 762 pages
...met, and the president's message was decidedly hostile. It began by charging that British cruisers had been in the continued practice of violating the American...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. This was the first time the government of the United States had alleged impressment as its chief grievance,... | |
 | Lady Matilda Ridout Edgar - Canada - 1912 - 604 pages
...met, and the president's message was decidedly hostile. It began by charging that British cruisers had been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the greai highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. This was the first... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1914 - 794 pages
...upon British ships of war. President Madison, in a message of June 1, 1812, said: "British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying of! persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - United States - 1915 - 414 pages
...Congress. In reciting the grievances of the United States, the President thrust into the foreground " the continued practice of violating the American flag...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it." No one could deny that these were real grievances, but they had not been pressed in recent negotiations... | |
 | National Security League - 1918 - 590 pages
...forth in President Madison's war message of June 1, 1812, were principally that: "British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. * * * Under pretended blockades, without the presence of an adequate force, and sometimes without the... | |
 | Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg - History - 1926 - 448 pages
...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. ... Under the pretext of searching for British subjects, thousands of American citizens, under the... | |
 | William Lawson Grant - Canada - 1926 - 622 pages
...met, and the president's message was decidedly hostile. It began by charging that British cruisers had been in the continued practice of violating the American...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. This was the first time the government of the United States had alleged impressment as its chief grievance,... | |
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