| Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...perfidy | scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages | and totally unworthy the head of a civalized nation. | He has constrained our fellow-citizens | taken captive on the high seas | to bear arms against their country, | to become the executioners of their friends and breth'ren, | or... | |
| Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. 2 He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| James Madison - Constitutional history - 1842 - 670 pages
...desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy [ ] unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| 1837 - 524 pages
...perfidy unworthy the head head of a civilized nation. of a civilized nation." — Constitution of Va. He has constrained our fellowcitizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the execution, ers of their friends and brethren, or to... | |
| William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| Bishop Davenport - North America - 1843 - 604 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| John Smith Hanna - United States - 1844 - 378 pages
...cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens,...has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known... | |
| Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
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