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 themselves by their hands. The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson - Page 326by Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1805 - 410 pages
...cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled to 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 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 Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 300 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... | |
| William Grimshaw - United States - 1821 - 298 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... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 520 pages
...large armies of foreign mercenaries, to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation. he has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose... | |
| Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 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... | |
| Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 624 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 couutry, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall... | |
| John Adams - Presidents - 1823 - 456 pages
...large armies of foreign mercenaries, to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation. he has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose-known... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...large army of foreign mercenaries, to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation : By answering our repeated petitions for redress with a repetition of injuries; And finally, by abandoning... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1821 - 674 pages
...large army of foreign mercenaries, to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a cmzed nation: By answering our repeated petitions for redress with a repetition of injuries: And finally,... | |
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