America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details Connected with the Present Social, Political, Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial State of the Country, Its Laws and Customs, Together with a Review of the Policy of the United States that Led to the War of 1812, and Peace of 1814--the "right of Search," the Texas and Oregon Questions, Etc. Etc, Količina 2T. C. Newby, 1846 - 494 strani |
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Stran 130
... Frigates of the 1st class , rated at 44 guns , and mount- ing 62 . 2 Frigates of the 2nd class , rated at 36 guns , and generally carrying 48 do . 17 Sloops of war , of the 1st class , rated at 20 guns , and gene- rally carrying 28 ...
... Frigates of the 1st class , rated at 44 guns , and mount- ing 62 . 2 Frigates of the 2nd class , rated at 36 guns , and generally carrying 48 do . 17 Sloops of war , of the 1st class , rated at 20 guns , and gene- rally carrying 28 ...
Stran 131
... Frigates of the 1st class 9 1 3 do . 2nd do . 1 1 Sloops of War , 1st class 12 1 4 do . 2nd do . 3 3 Brigs 6 1 ... Frigate 2nd do . do . Sloops of War Schooners 834 men . 453 do . 367 do . 188 do . 55 do . When reviewing this state ...
... Frigates of the 1st class 9 1 3 do . 2nd do . 1 1 Sloops of War , 1st class 12 1 4 do . 2nd do . 3 3 Brigs 6 1 ... Frigate 2nd do . do . Sloops of War Schooners 834 men . 453 do . 367 do . 188 do . 55 do . When reviewing this state ...
Stran 134
... frigates , fully equalling the old British 64- gun ships , carrying guns on their gangways and spar - deck , and which secured them a double tier of artillery on either side . Many of these first ... frigate the Constitution - the Macedonian.
... frigates , fully equalling the old British 64- gun ships , carrying guns on their gangways and spar - deck , and which secured them a double tier of artillery on either side . Many of these first ... frigate the Constitution - the Macedonian.
Stran 135
... frigate the Constitution - the Macedonian with the United States - the Endymion , with the President , or even , that the Shannon and Chesapeake , in these important qualifications , were unfairly matched . There is a subterfuge , a ...
... frigate the Constitution - the Macedonian with the United States - the Endymion , with the President , or even , that the Shannon and Chesapeake , in these important qualifications , were unfairly matched . There is a subterfuge , a ...
Stran 137
... frigates , brigs , sloops , & c . which formed the then navy of the United States . The following , equally corroborative of our opinion in this respect , is taken from the report of the mana- gers of the Port Society of the City of ...
... frigates , brigs , sloops , & c . which formed the then navy of the United States . The following , equally corroborative of our opinion in this respect , is taken from the report of the mana- gers of the Port Society of the City of ...
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Stran 66 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Stran 66 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Stran 52 - Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.
Stran 66 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Stran 67 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country...
Stran 66 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and...
Stran 10 - Congress may by law direct, shall be, and the same is hereby, for ever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the Government of the United States...
Stran 45 - By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation to papers of this description, directly or indirectly. "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live ; and, if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.
Stran 61 - And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died : and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage...
Stran 267 - No free person of African descent, either in whole or in part, shall be permitted to reside permanently in the republic without the consent of congress...