The Glory of America: Comprising Memoirs of the Lives and Glorious Exploits of Some of the Distinguished Officers Engaged in the Late War with Great Britain ; Among which are Andrew Jackson ... [et Al.] |
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... action of the line . The enemy intended to pass Fort Philip , in order to co - operate with the land forces in the attack at New Or- leans . On the 9th January , at half past three , P. M. the enemy's bomb vessels opened their fire ...
... action of the line . The enemy intended to pass Fort Philip , in order to co - operate with the land forces in the attack at New Or- leans . On the 9th January , at half past three , P. M. the enemy's bomb vessels opened their fire ...
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... action ; it was a contest for the very existence of the state , and every nerve was to be strained in its defence ... action , and instant action . No delay - no hesitation - no inquiry about rights , or all was lost ; and every ...
... action ; it was a contest for the very existence of the state , and every nerve was to be strained in its defence ... action , and instant action . No delay - no hesitation - no inquiry about rights , or all was lost ; and every ...
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... action . It contemplates that veto as countervailing the opinion of one third of both houses , because its interposition makes the concurrence of two thirds of both houses necessary . To complain , then , of its exercise , is to quarrel ...
... action . It contemplates that veto as countervailing the opinion of one third of both houses , because its interposition makes the concurrence of two thirds of both houses necessary . To complain , then , of its exercise , is to quarrel ...
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... action to the system . one . " No very considerable change has occurred , during the recess of congress , in the condition of either our agri- culture , commerce , or manufactures . The operation of the tariff has not proved so ...
... action to the system . one . " No very considerable change has occurred , during the recess of congress , in the condition of either our agri- culture , commerce , or manufactures . The operation of the tariff has not proved so ...
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... action of the legisla- tive power , whether the public deposites shall remain in the Bank of the United States until the end of its existence , or be withdrawn some time before , the President has felt himself bound to examine the ...
... action of the legisla- tive power , whether the public deposites shall remain in the Bank of the United States until the end of its existence , or be withdrawn some time before , the President has felt himself bound to examine the ...
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action affair Algiers American appointed arms army arrived artillery attack bank battery battle Biddle boats brave brig brigade British Captain Bainbridge capture carronades character charge circumstances citizens Colonel command commenced Commodore Commodore Decatur conduct Congress consequence Constitution court crew cruise Dearborn defence duty enemy enemy's engaged expedition favour fire flag force Fort Erie Fort George Foxardo frigate guns harbour Heath honour hostile hundred immediately Indians Jackson killed LEONARD COVINGTON letter liberty Lieutenant Macomb ment miles military militia nation naval navy neral o'clock officers party passed peace Philadelphia Pike pirates Plattsburgh port pounders President prisoners received regiment respect retreat returned river Sackett's Harbour sailed schooner sent ship shot sloop sloop of war soon South Carolina squadron station Stephen Decatur Sunday Mail surrender tion took Tripoli troops United vessels Washington whole wounded
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Page 112 - I have urged you to look back to the means that were used to hurry you on to the position you have now assumed and forward to the consequences it will produce. Something more is necessary. Contemplate the condition of that country of which you still form an important part. Consider its Government, uniting in one bond of common interest and general protection so many different States, giving to all their inhabitants the proud title of American citizen, protecting their commerce, securing their literature...
Page 76 - Office is considered as a species of property ; and government, rather as a means of promoting individual interests, than as an instrument created solely for the service of the people.
Page 119 - ... unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Page 76 - In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense.
Page 113 - Consider its. government, uniting in one bond of common interest and general protection so many different states, giving to all their inhabitants the proud title of AMERICAN CITIZENS, protecting their commerce, securing their literature and their arts, facilitating their intercommunication, defending their frontiers, and making their name respected in the remotest parts of the earth ! Consider the extent of its territory, its increasing and happy population, its advance in arts which render life...
Page 111 - Eloquent appeals to your passions, to your State pride, to your native courage, to your sense of real injury, were used to prepare you for the period when the mask which concealed the hideous features of DISUNION should be taken off. It fell, and you were made to look with complacency on objects which not long since you would have regarded with horror.
Page 98 - Union; and that the People of this State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a separate Government, and do all other acts and things which sovereign and independent States may of right do.
Page 108 - The states severally have not retained their entire sovereignty. It has been shown that, in becoming parts of a nation, not members of a league, they surrendered many of their essential parts of sovereignty.
Page 65 - Partial injuries and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to ; but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in my power.
Page 103 - States, or to show that implication, as is now contended, could defeat it. No. we have not erred. The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defence in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace; it shall descend as we have received it. uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity; and the sacrifices of local interest, of State prejudices, of personal animosities, that were made to bring it into existence, will again be patriotically offered...