The War in Texas: A Review of Facts and Circumstances, Showing that this Contest is a Crusade Against Mexicopublishers, 1837 - 64 pages |
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Page 26 - be imprisoned not exceeding three years, 2. That if any person shall, within the territory orjurisdiction of the United States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits orjurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince,
Page 42 - of the character of the people of this country, who supposes that a feeling of this kind is to be trifled with, or despised. It will assuredly cause itself to be respected. It may be reasoned with, it may be made willing, I believe it is entirely willing to fulfil all existing engagements, and
Page 42 - existing duties, to uphold and defend the constitution, as it is established, with whatever regrets about some provisions, which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence,—to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress and confine it, warm as it is and more heated as such endeavors would inevitably render it, —should all
Page 27 - of marque, or privateer, every person, .so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three years.
Page 5 - may rather be presumed) to avoid impeachment, or imprisonment and legal punishment for their misdeeds. They also assert, that the government "has demanded the surrender of a number of [their] citizens, and ordered military detachments to secure and carry them into the interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authority,
Page 16 - too, of the following solemn and sacred contract of his country with the sister republic which he would dismember :— ' There shall be a firm inviolable, and universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between the United States of America, and the United Mexican States, in all the extent of their possessions and territories, between their people and citizens respectively, without distinction of persons or places.
Page 39 - whereas the ninth section of the Constitution recently adopted by the Revolutionists of Texas, contains the following provisions:—viz. 'All persons of color, who were slaves for life previous to their emigration to Texas, and who are now held in bondage, shall remain in the like state of servitude, provided the said slave shall be the
Page 4 - constitution of this country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
Page 47 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the annexation of Texas to the United States as
Page 41 - a concern of the states themselves ; they have never submitted it to Congress, and Congress has no rightful power over it. 1 shall concur, therefore, in no act, no measure, no menace, no indication of purpose, which shall