Report of the Committee of the Senate of Massachusetts, Comprising the President's Message of the 1st of June, the Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, the Act Declaring War, the Proclamation of the President, Announcing that Event, and the Address of the Senate to the People of this Commonwealth |
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Seite 9 - It has become indeed sufficiently certain, that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
Seite 6 - The practice, hence, is so far from affecting 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...
Seite 7 - Not content with these occasional expedients for laying waste our neutral trade, the cabinet of...
Seite 12 - ... the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts ; and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets...
Seite 10 - ... edicts, or without success, in which case the United States would have been justified in turning their measures exclusively against France. The British Government would, however, neither rescind the blockade nor declare its nonexistence, nor permit its non-existence to be inferred and affirmed by the American plenipotentiary. On the contrary, by representing the blockade to be comprehended in the orders in council, the United States were compelled so to regard it in their subsequent proceedings.
Seite 12 - ... re-establishment of peace and friendship, is a solemn question, which the constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the government. In recommending it to their early deliberations, I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.
Seite 6 - British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace of our coasts. They hover over and harass our entering and departing commerce. To the most insulting pretensions they have added the most lawless proceedings in our very harbors, and have wantonly spilt American blood within the sanctuary of our territorial jurisdiction.
Seite 11 - And it has since come into proof that at the very moment, when the public minister was holding the language of friendship, and inspiring confidence in the sincerity of the negotiation with which he was charged, a secret agent of his government was employed in intrigues, having for their object, a subversion of our government, and a dismemberment of our happy Union.
Seite 12 - Our moderation and conciliation have had no other effect than to encourage perseverance, and to enlarge pretensions. We behold our seafaring citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence committed on the great and common highway of nations, even within sight of the country which owes them protection.
Seite 6 - Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against herself, the United States have in vain exhausted remonstrances and expostulations, and that no proof might be wanting of their conciliatory...
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| Titel | Report of the Committee of the Senate of Massachusetts, Comprising the President's Message of the 1st of June, the Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, the Act Declaring War, the Proclamation of the President, Announcing that Event, and the Address of the Senate to the People of this ... |
| Autor/in | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate |
| Verlag | Adams, Rhoades, & Company, printers, 1812 |
| Original von | University of California |
| Digitalisiert | 15. Nov. 2007 |
| Länge | 28 Seiten |
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