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In our last number , we gave a very brief sketch of one portion of the French
claims . Those claims may very suitably be divided into two general classes ,
those arising out of spoliations and other sources , prior to the Louisiana
Convention in ...
In our last number , we gave a very brief sketch of one portion of the French
claims . Those claims may very suitably be divided into two general classes ,
those arising out of spoliations and other sources , prior to the Louisiana
Convention in ...
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a most able memorial to the French minister , in which they divide the American
claims into two classes . The first consists of such , as are uncontroverted by the
French Government , and are substantially those provided for by the Louisiana ...
a most able memorial to the French minister , in which they divide the American
claims into two classes . The first consists of such , as are uncontroverted by the
French Government , and are substantially those provided for by the Louisiana ...
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Your committee beg leave to decline giving an opinion on the precise time , when
those claims ought to be commenced , or on the period for captures , after which
the memorialists would not have been entitled to compensation from France ...
Your committee beg leave to decline giving an opinion on the precise time , when
those claims ought to be commenced , or on the period for captures , after which
the memorialists would not have been entitled to compensation from France ...
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objected to these claims , that in renouncing them , the government of the United
States renounced nothing of value . That the claim was worth nothing , because
France would not have paid it ; because , after a long and earnest negotiation ...
objected to these claims , that in renouncing them , the government of the United
States renounced nothing of value . That the claim was worth nothing , because
France would not have paid it ; because , after a long and earnest negotiation ...
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How , in fact , can a suggestion now be plausibly made , that this claim was
worthless , because France had no ... to see that they regarded their claims as
very important , and yet they offset them against the claim of our citizens for
spoliations .
How , in fact , can a suggestion now be plausibly made , that this claim was
worthless , because France had no ... to see that they regarded their claims as
very important , and yet they offset them against the claim of our citizens for
spoliations .
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Seite 390 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Seite 434 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Seite 391 - ... CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them by murdering the people...
Seite 388 - He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People...
Seite 370 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Seite 389 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 387 - ... such government, and to provide new guards for their future security- such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government...
Seite 63 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Seite 438 - Take thy banner ! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it ! — till our homes are free ! Guard it ! — God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then.
Seite 391 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...