 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1900 - 818 pages
...them; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under the seventies of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly eûmes, to risk their fives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the mdancholv instruments... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 530 pages
...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 the severities...exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk retrospective effect being thus added, as has been done in other important cases. to the unlawfulness... | |
 | William Wallace Bates - Merchant marine - 1902 - 506 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...enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt to revenge if committed against herself, the United States have in vain exhausted remonstrances and expostulations,... | |
 | Military art and science - 1905 - 818 pages
...national flag, have been torn from their country and everything 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." King George III. yielded his "Principle" of right to search only at the cannon's mouth. The views of... | |
 | James Fulton Zimmerman - Great Britain - 1925 - 292 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...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. 1Ibid., 1480.1481. Against this crying enormity^ which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if... | |
 | Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg - History - 1926 - 448 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...melancholy instruments of taking away those of their brethren. . . . British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace... | |
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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... 
