 | 1917 - 700 pages
...usurpations and these accumulating wrongs," he said: 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. On June 18, 1812, Congress declared war against Great Britain. * * * AMERlCAN... | |
 | Bertram Benedict - 1919 - 490 pages
...enemy dared not issue from his own ports. . . •. . 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. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
 | Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg - 1926 - 448 pages
...conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert. . . . 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. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
 | Francis Dunham Wormuth, Edwin Brown Firmage - 1989 - 380 pages
...incited Indian tribes to attack the United States. 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. Whether the United States shall remain passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 pages
...legislative department." But he did present a catalog of insults aiming to show "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." Madison mentioned impressment, Indian warfare in the West presumably stimulated... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 784 pages
...sums up the situation in these impressive words: "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. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations,... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - 2005 - 472 pages
...humanity." As Madison summed up his view of the struggle, "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." Well aware of the constitutional constraints on the president in declaring war,... | |
 | William C. Martel - 2006 - 311 pages
...encourage perseverance and to enlarge pretensions. . . . 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 war toward Great Britain." As Stagg observed (Mr. Madison's War, p. 3), "This declaration [of war]... | |
 | United States. President - 1858 - 802 pages
...regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever. 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. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
 | Russell D. Buhite - 2003 - 420 pages
...regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever. 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. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
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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. 
