Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Svazek 9R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... committee to prepare these docu- ments ; for the two first his country is indebted to his pen , as the manuscripts in possession of his family prove . Early in the session of 1765 , Patrick Henry pro- posed his celebrated resolutions ...
... committee to prepare these docu- ments ; for the two first his country is indebted to his pen , as the manuscripts in possession of his family prove . Early in the session of 1765 , Patrick Henry pro- posed his celebrated resolutions ...
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... committees should be appointed by all the colonies , but that a private correspondence should be conducted between the lovers of liberty in every province . " The event alone and the glorious termination of the contest , could not ...
... committees should be appointed by all the colonies , but that a private correspondence should be conducted between the lovers of liberty in every province . " The event alone and the glorious termination of the contest , could not ...
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... committee on the judiciary and inter- nal relations , brought in his report recommending the improvement of the navigation of the Potowmac as high as fort Cumberland , thus evincing not only de- votion to the cause of his country , but ...
... committee on the judiciary and inter- nal relations , brought in his report recommending the improvement of the navigation of the Potowmac as high as fort Cumberland , thus evincing not only de- votion to the cause of his country , but ...
Strana 35
... above resolutions , but the second was softened into a re- commendation to the committee of correspondence , to obtain the sentiments of the other colonies , on the 3 expediency of a meeting of deputies , " to RICHARD HENRY LEE . 35.
... above resolutions , but the second was softened into a re- commendation to the committee of correspondence , to obtain the sentiments of the other colonies , on the 3 expediency of a meeting of deputies , " to RICHARD HENRY LEE . 35.
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... committees of this session ; to prepare an address to the king of England , to the people of Britain , and to the colo- nies . The committee for the first were Messrs . Lee , Adams , Johnson , Rutledge and Henry , they reported a ...
... committees of this session ; to prepare an address to the king of England , to the people of Britain , and to the colo- nies . The committee for the first were Messrs . Lee , Adams , Johnson , Rutledge and Henry , they reported a ...
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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 46 - July next ; and in the meanwhile, that no time be lost, in case the Congress agree thereto, that a Committee be appointed to prepare a declaration to the effect of the said first resolution...
Strana 4 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Strana 164 - 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, under a conviction of the absolute necessity of uniting all our councils and all our strength, to maintain and defend our common liberties...
Strana 287 - ... if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands and everything we possess or make use of ? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which, as we have never forfeited them, we hold in common with our fellow subjects who are natives of Britain.
Strana 203 - ... 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 85 - That the people of this State ought to have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof.
Strana 256 - Resolved, That a standing committee, to consist of five members, be appointed to hear and determine upon appeals brought against sentences passed on libels in the Courts of Admiralty in the respective States, agreeable to the resolutions of Congress ; and that the several appeals, when lodged with the secretary, be by him delivered to them for their final determination.
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...
Strana 45 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...