 | Francis Dunham Wormuth, Edwin Brown Firmage - 1989 - 380 pages
...violating what was in fact an illegal blockade, and had incited Indian tribes to attack the United States. We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a...on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain. Whether the United States shall remain passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
 | Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 2009 - 276 pages
...Senator Cass in the Mexican War ("Deliberations for the Mexican War Declaration," 800). "We behold ... on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against...United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain" (President Madison, "Deliberations for the 1812 Declaration," 1630). One might argue that the assertion... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 pages
...wisely confides to the legislative department." But he did present a catalog of insults aiming to show "on the side of Great Britain a state of war against...on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain." Madison mentioned impressment, Indian warfare in the West presumably stimulated... | |
 | Donald R. Hickey - 1995 - 156 pages
...the thrust of his message was unmistakable. "We behold ... on the side of Great Britain," he said, "a state of war against the United States; and on...side of the United States a state of peace towards Britain." Madison's message was referred to the House Foreign Relations Committee, which issued a report... | |
 | Kenneth Hilton - 1999 - 138 pages
...behold our vessels . . . wrested [taken] from their lawful destinations ... in [to] British ports. . . . We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States . . . According to this excerpt from President Madison's Declaration of War, what seemed to be the... | |
 | Andrew Santella - 2003 - 74 pages
...message to the US Congress. Madison wrote that the United States had tried to be peaceful, but "we behold on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States." Madison believed the United States had no choice but to declare war on Great Britain. "Peace as we... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 784 pages
...still continuing to inflict, on the United States, sums up the situation in these impressive words: "We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain,...on the side of the United States, a state of peace toward Great Britain. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations,... | |
 | Diana Childress - 2004 - 90 pages
...the high seas and on the western frontier. He urged Congress to vote for war. "We behold," he said, "on the side of Great Britain a state of war against...United States a state of peace towards Great Britain." New Englanders objected to war because they thought the issues could be settled by diplomatic negotiation.... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - 2005 - 472 pages
...distinguished by features particularly shocking to humanity." As Madison summed up his view of the struggle, "We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain...on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain." Well aware of the constitutional constraints on the president in declaring war,... | |
 | William C. Martel - 2006 - 311 pages
...conciliation have had no other effort than to encourage perseverance and to enlarge pretensions. . . . We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a...States, and on the side of the United States a state of war toward Great Britain." As Stagg observed (Mr. Madison's War, p. 3), "This declaration [of war]... | |
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We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain. 
