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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 766 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 300 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 214 0 Browse Search
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the Government. To make good one denial of this claim we fought a war with Great Britain and our has been supported by of State paper and legal dialectics more aband treasure, a naval squad upon on the coast of Africa in conjunction with Great Britain, in order that when search should be necessary upon American merchantmen, Ah, asserted by the public law of the Old World, and practically enforced by Great Britain, has elicited more opposition from our people and Government than any othernt of actually exercising it upon a British vessel We went to war with Great Britain in 1812 because of her boarding our vessels in search of seamen claimed to our vessels for the purpose of taking away any class of persons whatever. Great Britain persisted in this practice, and war was the consequence.--Other causes consich the act was perpetrated. If such a proceeding shall be submitted to by Great Britain, her claim of being a house of refuge for the oppressed of all lands, must
evotion which the State of Virginia had permitted me to pledge to the Federal Union, so long only as by serving it, I might serve her. Thus my sword has been tendered in her cause, and the tender has been accepted. Her soil is invaded, the enemy is actually at her gates, and here I am, contending, as the fathers of the Republic did, for the right of self-government and those very principles for the maintenance of which Washington fought, when this, his native State, was a colony of Great Britain. The path of duty and of honor is therefore plain. By following it with the devotion and loyalty of a true sailor I shall, I am persuaded, have the glorious and proud recompense that is contained in the "well-done" of the Grand Admiral of Russia and his noble "companions in arms." When the invader is expelled, and as soon thereafter as the State will grant me leave, I promise myself the pleasure of a trip across the Atlantic, and shall hasten to Russia that I may there in pers