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" It will not be to the interest of any of the great maritime Powers to protect them from the Barbary States. If they know their interests, they will not encourage the Americans to be carriers. That the Barbary States are advantageous to maritime Powers... "
The History of Our Navy from Its Origin to the Present Day, 1775-1897 - Page 304
by John Randolph Spears - 1897 - 607 pages
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The Land We Live in: Or, The Story of Our Country

Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...sense of justice was always supreme. In his * As early as 1784 Lord Sheffield said in Parliament : " It is not probable that the American States will have...they know their interests they will not encourage American carriers." agony upon the news of St. Clair's defeat, he denounced that general as worse than...
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An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States ...

Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...writers of a lively imagination have lately said so much, is weakness* itself."^ " It is not probable the American states will have a very free trade in the Mediterranean; it will not be the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them from the Barbary states. They cannot...
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The Library of American Biography, Volume 21

Jared Sparks - United States - 1846 - 504 pages
...our commerce, in which the war with Algiers, so triumphantly concluded by Decatur, had its origin ; " It is not probable that the American States will have...very free trade in the Mediterranean. It will not be the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them from the Barbary States. If they know...
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A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton: With an Appendix ...

Samuel John Bayard - California - 1856 - 358 pages
...American States," he recommends this policy without disguise. He says, (p. 204,) ''/£ is not probable the American States will have a very free trade in the Mediterranea.n ; it will riot be the interest of any of the great maritime .powers to protect them from the Barbary States....
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A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton: With an Appendix ...

Samuel John Bayard, Robert Field Stockton - California - 1856 - 366 pages
...States," he recommends this policy without disguise. He says, (p. 204,) "It is not probable the Ameriean States will have a very free trade in the Mediterranean; it will not be the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them from the Barbary States. If they know...
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American Enterprise: Burley's United States Centennial Gazetteer and Guide ...

Sylvester W. Burley - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 900 pages
...make another extract which signally shows his lordship's weakness when he attempts to prophesy : " It is not probable that the American States will have...very free trade in the Mediterranean. It will not be tlie interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them there from the Barbm-y States. If...
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American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce

Eugene Schuyler - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1886 - 496 pages
...Mediterranean. Lord Sheffield had said in 1783, in his "Observations on the Commerce of the American States : " "It is not probable that the American States will...very free trade in the Mediterranean. It will not be for the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them from the Barbary States. If they...
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Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs

Gardner Weld Allen - Africa, North - 1905 - 398 pages
...which is a strong protectionist argument, as will appear from the following : " It is not probable the American States will have a very free trade in the Mediterranean ; it will not be the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them there from the Barbary States. If...
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Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs

Gardner Weld Allen - History - 1905 - 412 pages
...not probable the American States will have a very free trade in the Mediterranean ; it will not be the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them there from the Barbary States. If they know their interests, they will not encourage the A mericans...
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A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest ..., Volume 7

Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1910 - 558 pages
...interest was bluntly set forth in a pamphlet published by Lord Sheffield in 1783. "It is not probable the American States will have a very free trade in the Mediterranean," wrote Sheffield. "It will not be the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them there...
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