| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 652 pages
...own commerce and navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy —...are for the most part the only passports by which it fan succeed. Anxious to make every experiment short of the last resort of injured nations, the United... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1900 - 818 pages
...navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend that she may the better earn- on a commerce with an enemy — a commerce polluted...for the most part the only passports by which it can Anxious to make every experiment short of the last resort of injured nations, the United States have... | |
| William Wallace Bates - Merchant marine - 1902 - 506 pages
...own commerce and navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy —...Great Britain, under successive modifications, the benefit of a free intercourse with their market, the loss of which could not but outweigh the profits... | |
| Merchant marine - 1905 - 548 pages
...own commerce and navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend, that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy —...part the only passports by which it can succeed." FELIX GRUNDY, of Tennessee, declared : "It is not the carrying trade about which this nation and Great... | |
| James Cooke Mills - History - 1913 - 336 pages
...in the president's message : "She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend, that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy ; a commerce polluted by forgeries and perjuries which are, for the most part, the only passports by which it can succeed."... | |
| James Cooke Mills - History - 1913 - 332 pages
...in the president's message : "She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend, that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy ; a commerce polluted by forgeries and perjuries which are, for the most part, the only passports by which it can succeed."... | |
| Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg - History - 1926 - 448 pages
...own commerce and navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy —...most part the only passports by which it can succeed. ... In reviewing the conduct of Great Britain toward the United States, our attention is necessarily... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...own commerce and navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend, that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy,...commerce polluted by the forgeries and perjuries which arc lor the most part the only passports by which it can succeed. Anxious 10 make every experiment... | |
| Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1841 - 888 pages
...navigation. She carries on a War against the lawful commerce of a Friend, that she may the better carry on a commerce polluted by the forgeries and perjuries which are, for the moat part, the only passports by which it can succeed. Anxious to make every experiment, short of the... | |
| Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...attempted before they reluctantly opted for the use of force. For example, in 1812, Madison spoke of a wish "to make every experiment short of the last resort of injured nations" and concluded that these efforts had only encouraged the British enemy: "Our moderation and conciliation... | |
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