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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... "
History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution, from the ... - Page 908
by C. H. Gifford - 1817
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Letters on the American Rebellion: 1860 to 1865, &c

Samuel Aspinwall Goddard - United States - 1870 - 612 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...their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and most deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy...
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The True Doctrine of State Rights: With an Examination of the Record of the ...

James Breckinridge Waller - Enslaved persons - 1880 - 104 pages
...have been borne from their country and from everything dear to them, have been dragged on board ships of a foreign nation, and exposed under the severities...deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of the oppressors, and to be melancholy instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. " Congress...
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Life and Times of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B.

David Breakenridge Read - Aggressiveness - 1894 - 284 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 the severities of their discipline and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy...
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 2

United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 574 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...exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk then" lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking away...
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Public Papers of Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of New York, 1807-1817, Volume 1

New York (State). Governor (1807-1817 : Tompkins), Daniel D. Tompkins - Governors - 1898 - 938 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...their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant deadly climes, to risk their lives In the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy Instruments...
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Volume 1

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...
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Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902, Volume 6

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...
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American Navigation: The Political History of Its Rise and Ruin and the ...

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,...
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The United Service

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...
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Impressment of American Seamen, Volume 118, Issue 1

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...
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