 With this evidence of hostile inflexibility in trampling on rights which no independent nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national...  The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 249edited by - 1814Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1861 - 698 pages
...ready for war. In the language of Mr. Madison, " let us put the United States into an armor, and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectation." One war has already found us unprepared. And what that condition of things cost in blood,... | |
 | Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman ("Mrs. Chapman Coleman, ") - 1871 - 408 pages
...Britain, as demanding resistance, and urging upon Congress the duty of putting the country " into an armor and attitude demanded by the crisis and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations." * It was precisely at this point of time that Mr. Clay, having resigned his seat in the Senate, appeared... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1880 - 758 pages
...ample provision for maintaining them." He suggested the putting the country " into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations." And yet, as plainly appears from the cotemporaneous letters of Monroe to Barlow, the cabinet did not... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1880 - 762 pages
...provision for maintaining them." He suggested the putting the country " into an armor and an altitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations." And yet, as plainly appears from the cotemporaneous letters of Monroe to Barlow, the cabinet did not... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 580 pages
...nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations. "I recommend, accordingly, that adequate provision be made for filling the ranks and prolonging the... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1887 - 416 pages
...war on our lawful commerce." Madison therefore advised that the United States be put " into an armor and attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations." This had a warlike sound, while, in fact, Madison was an exceedingly unwarlike man. He ardently wished,... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 530 pages
...nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations." The report of Secretary Gallatin, sent to the House November 22, bore also a warlike character. For... | |
 | David Breakenridge Read - 1894 - 284 pages
...between the two countries, he said: "Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armour and attitude demanded by the crisis and...corresponding with the national spirit and expectations." He then went on to recommend Congress to make adequate provision for filling the ranks and prolonging... | |
 | United States. President - 1896 - 646 pages
...nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations. I recommend, accordingly, that adequate provision be made for filling the ranks and prolonging the... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 574 pages
...nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations. I recommend, accordingly, that adequate provision be made for filling the ranks and prolonging the... | |
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