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 ...E. Strong, 1843 - 574 páginas |
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Página 190
... , say four of every five voters , and is yearly becoming a more popular favourite . Meetings have lately been called in approbation of his mail reports . COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR . * - In recording the events 190 GLORY OF AMERICA .
... , say four of every five voters , and is yearly becoming a more popular favourite . Meetings have lately been called in approbation of his mail reports . COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR . * - In recording the events 190 GLORY OF AMERICA .
Página 191
... COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR . * - In recording the events of a life , the major part of which was devoted to the service of his country , the writer is aware that the space which it must occupy is too circumscribed to render complete ...
... COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR . * - In recording the events of a life , the major part of which was devoted to the service of his country , the writer is aware that the space which it must occupy is too circumscribed to render complete ...
Página 192
... Decatur , was born on the 5th January , 1779 , on the eastern shore of ... Commodore Barry , who had obtained it for him . He continued for some time ... Decatur was in the United States , that ship was engaged in the duty of convoying ...
... Decatur , was born on the 5th January , 1779 , on the eastern shore of ... Commodore Barry , who had obtained it for him . He continued for some time ... Decatur was in the United States , that ship was engaged in the duty of convoying ...
Página 193
... Commodore Dale , having accomplished the object for which he was despatched with his squadron to the Mediterranean , returned with it to America . Lieu- tenant Decatur returned in the Essex ; and was received by his friends and ...
... Commodore Dale , having accomplished the object for which he was despatched with his squadron to the Mediterranean , returned with it to America . Lieu- tenant Decatur returned in the Essex ; and was received by his friends and ...
Página 194
... DECATUR , was one of those who led the van in the acquisition of the fame ... Commodore Preble's squadron , then in the Mediter- ranean , and on his ... Commodore Preble's arrival , a few days afterwards , he proposed to him a plan for ...
... DECATUR , was one of those who led the van in the acquisition of the fame ... Commodore Preble's squadron , then in the Mediter- ranean , and on his ... Commodore Preble's arrival , a few days afterwards , he proposed to him a plan for ...
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Página 103 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Página 103 - This state of things could not be endured, and our present happy Constitution was formed, but formed in vain, if this fatal doctrine prevails. It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble, made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed, and whose conventions approved it. The most important among these objects, that which is placed first in rank, on which all the others rest, is, " to form a more perfect Union.
Página 121 - ... 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.
Página 99 - Union; and that the people of this State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connexion with the people of the other States...
Página 32 - Judge, whom he had arrested, to show cause why an attachment should not issue against him, for a contempt of the court in sundry particulars relating to the writ of habeas corpus.
Página 110 - 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.
Página 115 - 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...
Página 364 - The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain, in the capture of one frigate, one brig, and two sloops of war of the enemy.
Página 113 - Fellow-citizens of my native state ! — let me not only admonish you, as the first magistrate of our common country, not to incur the penalty of its laws, but use the influence that a father would over his children whom he saw rushing to certain ruin. In that paternal language, with that paternal feeling, let me tell you, my countrymen, that you are deluded by men who are either deceived themselves or wish to deceive you.
Página 102 - States discovered that they had the right now claimed by South Carolina. The war into which we were forced, to support the dignity of the nation and the rights of our citizens, might have ended in defeat and disgrace instead of victory and honor, if the States who supposed it a ruinous and unconstitutional measure had thought they possessed the right of nullifying the act by which it was declared, and denying supplies for its prosecution.