Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence [ed.] by J. Sanderson, Svazek 91827 |
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Strana 15
... reason and experi- ence , that the importation of slaves into this colony , has been and will be attended with effects dangerous to our political and moral interest . When it is observed that some of our neighbouring colonies , though ...
... reason and experi- ence , that the importation of slaves into this colony , has been and will be attended with effects dangerous to our political and moral interest . When it is observed that some of our neighbouring colonies , though ...
Strana 16
... reasons to be urged against the importation . In my opinion , not the cru- elties practised in the conquest of Spanish America , not the savage barbarities of a Saracen , can be more big with atrocity than our cruel trade to Africa ...
... reasons to be urged against the importation . In my opinion , not the cru- elties practised in the conquest of Spanish America , not the savage barbarities of a Saracen , can be more big with atrocity than our cruel trade to Africa ...
Strana 17
... reason has traced or declamation im- puted to republican principles , it brands as visionary or condemns as false , the maxim " that the people are the legitimate source of power . " In the house of bur- gesses of Virginia , there was a ...
... reason has traced or declamation im- puted to republican principles , it brands as visionary or condemns as false , the maxim " that the people are the legitimate source of power . " In the house of bur- gesses of Virginia , there was a ...
Strana 20
... reason , justice , and the spirit of the British constitution , were sufficient to overturn the assumption in the declaratory act , and these Mr. Lee furnished to his friends in London and in the colo- nies , one month after the passage ...
... reason , justice , and the spirit of the British constitution , were sufficient to overturn the assumption in the declaratory act , and these Mr. Lee furnished to his friends in London and in the colo- nies , one month after the passage ...
Strana 29
... reason and experience , when he proposed the way to contest by division . How to effect this union in the wisest and firmest manner , perhaps time and much reflection only can show . But well to understand each other , and timely to be ...
... reason and experience , when he proposed the way to contest by division . How to effect this union in the wisest and firmest manner , perhaps time and much reflection only can show . But well to understand each other , and timely to be ...
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Strana 43 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Strana 164 - Hardly is it to be expected that any plan, in the variety of provisions essential to our union, should exactly correspond with the maxims and political views of every particular state. Let it be remarked, that after the most careful...
Strana 48 - CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former...
Strana 81 - ... dissent from and utterly reject any propositions, should such be made, that may cause or lead to a separation from our mother country, or a change of the form of this government.
Strana 164 - Permit us, then, earnestly to recommend these articles to the immediate and dispassionate attention of the legislatures of the respective states. Let them be candidly reviewed, under a sense of the difficulty of combining in one general system the various sentiments and interests of a continent divided into so many sovereign and independent communities...
Strana 205 - ... firmly to unite in the abhorrence of all such writings, and measures, as evidence a desire and design to break off the happy connection we have hitherto enjoyed with the kingdom of Great Britain, and our just and necessary subordination to the king, and those who are lawfully placed in authority under him.
Strana 202 - John Pemberton, in and on Behalf of the meeting of sufferings, held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, the 20th of the 12th month, 1776...
Strana 46 - ... tyranny which desolates her polluted shores. She invites us to prepare an asylum where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted repose. She entreats us to cultivate a propitious soil, where that generous plant which first...