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" 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. "
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T. Jefferson - Page 18
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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An Abridgement of the Laws of the United States: Or, A Complete Digest of ...

William Graydon - 1803 - 730 pages
...scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, arid 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...
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The Constitutions of the United States: According to the Latest Amendments ...

1804 - 372 pages
...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...
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The History of the Discovery and Settlement: To the Present Time, of North ...

William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 pages
...scarcely paralleled to the most barbarous dgts, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He. has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear anus against thejr country, lo become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall...
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The History of North and South America, from Its Discovery to ..., Volumes 1-2

Richard Snowden - 1805 - 398 pages
...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 bean arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall...
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The Republican Compiler: Comprising a Series of Scientific, Descriptive ...

A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 pages
...scarcely parallelled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the heart 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...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 pages
...saved him. The fact is referred to in that paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which says, ' 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...
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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 7

John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pages
...thetnseh'es by their hands. In place of the three paragraphs erased, the two following were introduced: [He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become th« executioners of their friends and brethren. or to fall...
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The North American Review, Volume 22

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...
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The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut: As Revised and Enacted ...

Connecticut - 1821 - 536 pages
...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...
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Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams ...

John Adams - 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...
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