Some Account of General Jackson: Drawn Up from the Hon. Mr. Eaton's Very Circumstantial Narrative, and Other Well-established Information Respecting HimH. Vicary, Matchett, print., 1828 - 272 Seiten |
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Some Account of General Jackson: Drawn Up from the Hon. Mr. Eaton's Very ... John Henry Eaton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Seite 2 - And also to the act, entitled, " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, ' An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 135 - I am in your power : do with me what you please. I am a soldier. I have done the white people all the harm I could. I have fought them, and fought them bravely. If I had an army, I would yet fight, and contend to the last. But I have done — my people are all gone — I can do no more than weep over the misfortunes of my nation.
Seite 138 - I would have raised my corn on one bank of the river and fought them on the other; but your people have destroyed my nation. You are a brave man; I rely upon your generosity. You will exact no terms of a conquered people but such as they should accede to; whatever they may be, it would now be madness and folly to oppose.
Seite 175 - British officers — a good train of artillery with every requisite, seconded by the powerful aid of a numerous British and Spanish squadron of ships and vessels of war. Be not alarmed, inhabitants of the country, at our approach; the same good faith and disinterestedness which...
Seite 32 - We are about to furnish these savages a lesson of admonition ; we are about to teach them that our long forbearance has not proceeded from an insensibility to wrongs, or an inability to redress them. They stand in need of such warning. In proportion as we have borne with their insults and submitted to their outrages, they have multiplied in number and increased in atrocity. But the measure of their offenses is at length filled.
Seite 34 - We must and will be victorious ; but we must conquer as men who owe nothing to chance, and who in the midst of victory can still be mindful of what is due to humanity ! We will commence the campaign by an inviolable attention to discipline and subordination.
Seite 39 - ... frontiers by the inhuman Creeks, instigated by their no less inhuman allies. You shall not be disappointed. If the enemy flee before us, we will overtake and chastise him : we will teach him how dreadful, when once aroused, is the resentment of freemen. But it is not by boasting that punishment is to be inflicted, or victory obtained. The same resolution that prompted us to take up arms, must inspire us in battle. Men thus animated, and thus resolved, barbarians can never conquer ; and it is...
Seite 115 - In their places a new generation will arise who will know their duties better. The weapons of warfare will be exchanged for the utensils of husbandry; and the wilderness which now withers in sterility and seems to mourn the desolation which overspreads it, will blossom as the rose, and become the nursery of the arts.
Seite 175 - ... to you by men who will suffer no infringement of theirs; rest assured that these brave red men only burn with an ardent desire of satisfaction for the wrongs they have suffered from the Americans; to join you in liberating these Southern provinces from their yoke, and drive them into those limits formerly prescribed by my sovereign. The Indians have pledged themselves, in the most solemn manner, not to injure, in the slightest degree, the persons or properties of any but enemies. A flag...
Seite 61 - sound policy' of the measures that have been recommended consist? or in what way are they 'likely to promote the public good' ? Is it sound policy to abandon a conquest thus far made, and deliver up to havoc, or add to the number of our enemies, those friendly Creeks and Cherokees, who, relying on our protection, have espoused our cause and aided us with their arms? Is it good...