The History of the Discovery and Settlement: To the Present Time, of North and South America, and of the West Indies |
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... 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 themselves by their hands .
... 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 themselves by their hands .
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Page 261 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union and the patronage of Heaven.
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| Title | The History of the Discovery and Settlement: To the Present Time, of North and South America, and of the West Indies |
| Author | William Fordyce Mavor |
| Publisher | Richard Phillips, 1804 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 10 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 383 pages |
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