The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... British naval officer on the west coast of Africa , detail circum- stances calculated to move the most prejudiced feelings in regard to the question of the right of visit , and to urge the most decided measures for the suppression of ...
... British naval officer on the west coast of Africa , detail circum- stances calculated to move the most prejudiced feelings in regard to the question of the right of visit , and to urge the most decided measures for the suppression of ...
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... British cruiser , knowing that we have no legal right to molest them in any way .. Last year slavers were ( in the majority of cases ) captured through their captains foregoing the protection of the American flag , but now American ...
... British cruiser , knowing that we have no legal right to molest them in any way .. Last year slavers were ( in the majority of cases ) captured through their captains foregoing the protection of the American flag , but now American ...
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... British naval officer on the west coast of Africa . The frequency with which the American flag is counterfeited as a cover for the traffic most impressively denounced and punished by American law , created in the government of the ...
... British naval officer on the west coast of Africa . The frequency with which the American flag is counterfeited as a cover for the traffic most impressively denounced and punished by American law , created in the government of the ...
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... British admiralty were actually engaged in the slave - trade , or were bona fide American . As I remarked heretofore to Lord Napier , there is just ground to believe that nearly if not quite all the vessels bearing the American flag and ...
... British admiralty were actually engaged in the slave - trade , or were bona fide American . As I remarked heretofore to Lord Napier , there is just ground to believe that nearly if not quite all the vessels bearing the American flag and ...
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... British cruiser than if he hoisted the colors of the United States ; and in neither case is it the assumption of the flag which confers the immunity , but the legal character of the vessel , agreeably to the principle stated in my ...
... British cruiser than if he hoisted the colors of the United States ; and in neither case is it the assumption of the flag which confers the immunity , but the legal character of the vessel , agreeably to the principle stated in my ...
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