 | United States - 1815 - 68 pages
...alarming to perceive, that these projectse manate from the highest authority; nor should it In Ihis whole series of devices and measures for raising men,...upon the citizen, than to force him from his home and his occupation, to wage offensive wars, undertaken to gratify the pride or passions of his master.... | |
 | New England - 1815 - 48 pages
...exclusively, which would have been in its operation a direct tax, was strenuously urged and supported. In this whole series of devices and measures for raising...disposition to violate its provisions, demanding from the States a linn and decided opposition. An iron potism can impose no harder servitude upon the citizen,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 466 pages
...exclusively, which would have been in its operation a direct tax, was strenuously urged and supported. " In this whole series of devices and measures for raising...upon the citizen, than to force him from his home and his occupation, to wage offensive wars, undertaken to gratify the pride or passions of his master.... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 510 pages
...been in its operation a direct tax, was strenuously urged and supported. " In this whole series cf devices and measures for raising men, this convention...upon the citizen, than to force him from his home and his occupation, to wage offensive wars, undertaken to gratify the pride or passions of his master.... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...it says : " In this whole series of de vices and measures for raising men, this Convention discerns a total disregard for the Constitution, and a disposition...opposition. An iron despotism can impose no harder service upon the citizen than to force him from his home and his occupation to wage ofiensive war undertaken... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...it says : " In this whole series of de vices and measures for raising men, this Convention discerns a total disregard for the Constitution, and a disposition...opposition. An iron despotism can impose no harder service upon the citizen than to force him from his home and his occupation to wage offensive war undertaken... | |
 | 1864 - 746 pages
...vehement. It said:— "The power of compelling the militia aud other citizens of the United States, by a forcible draft or conscription, to serve in the...measures for raising men, this Convention discern to be a fixed determination, we are indeed in the midst of a Revolution, and of changes in the very... | |
 | Henry Adams - New England - 1877 - 458 pages
...the final report, after referring to all the bills pending, or acts passed for raising men, says," In this whole series of devices and measures for raising...individual States a firm and decided opposition." No exception whatever in favor of this bill, though at that time so near its passage, and known by... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...from other states, held the Hartford Convention, which thus expressed her views as a sovereign : " In this whole series of devices and measures for raising...the individual states a firm and decided opposition. . . . Acts of congress, in violation of the constitution, are absolutely void. . . . It will be proper... | |
 | j. p. gordy - 1902 - 678 pages
...draft, and the law authorizing the enlistment of minors and apprentices — "this convention discovers a total disregard for the constitution, and a disposition...individual states a firm and decided opposition." What kind of opposition ? The report leaves no doubt as to the meaning of the convention. "That acts... | |
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In this whole series of devices and measures for raising men, this convention discern a total disregard for the constitution, and a disposition to violate its provisions, demanding from the individual states a firm and decided opposition. 
