Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Chas. Hudson, of Mass., On the Three Million Appropriation Bill: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. S., Feb. 13, 1847 We must now proceed to other wrongs, which have been still more severely felt. Among these is the impressment of our seamen, a practice which has been unceasingly maintained by Great Britain in the wars to which she has been a party since our Revolution. Your committee cannot convey in adequate terms, the deep sense which they entertain of the injustice and op pression of this proceeding. Under the pretext of impressing British seamen, our fellow-citii zens are seized in British ports, on the high seas, and in every other quarter to which British pcower extends; are taken on board British men of war, and compelled to serve there as. British subjects. In this mode our citizens are wantonly snatched from their country and their fami lies, deprived of their liberty, and doomed to an ignominious and slavish bondage; compelled to fight the battles of a foreign country, and often to perish in them. Our flag has given them no protection it has been unceasingly violated, and our vessels exposed to dangerzby the loss of men taken from them. Your committee need not remark, that, while this practice is contin' it is impossible for the United States to consider themselves an independent nation. Its (continuance IS the more unjustifiable, because the United States have repeatedly proposed to the British government an arrangement which would secure to it the control of its own people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.