Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, Svazek 1F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... tion . Being elected one for my own county , I prepared a draught of instructions to be given to the delegates whom we should send to the Congress , which I meant to propose at our meeting . * In this I took the ground that , from the ...
... tion . Being elected one for my own county , I prepared a draught of instructions to be given to the delegates whom we should send to the Congress , which I meant to propose at our meeting . * In this I took the ground that , from the ...
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... tion between us and England ? Our other patriots , Randolph , the Lees , Nicholas , Pendleton , stopped at the half way house of John Dickinson , who admitted that England had a right to regulate our commerce , and to lay duties on it ...
... tion between us and England ? Our other patriots , Randolph , the Lees , Nicholas , Pendleton , stopped at the half way house of John Dickinson , who admitted that England had a right to regulate our commerce , and to lay duties on it ...
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... tion , and referred it to a committee of the whole , into which they immediately resolved themselves , and passed that day and Monday the 10th in debating on the subject . It was argued by Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge ...
... tion , and referred it to a committee of the whole , into which they immediately resolved themselves , and passed that day and Monday the 10th in debating on the subject . It was argued by Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge ...
Strana 19
... tion of all ages , sexes and conditions [ of existence . ] [ He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fel- low citizens , with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property . He has waged cruel war against human ...
... tion of all ages , sexes and conditions [ of existence . ] [ He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fel- low citizens , with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property . He has waged cruel war against human ...
Strana 20
... necessity which denounces our [ eternal ] separa- We must therefore and hold them tion [ ] ! as we hold the rest of man- kind , enemies in war , in peace friends . We We therefore the representa- tives of the United States of 20.
... necessity which denounces our [ eternal ] separa- We must therefore and hold them tion [ ] ! as we hold the rest of man- kind , enemies in war , in peace friends . We We therefore the representa- tives of the United States of 20.
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Strana 15 - 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.
Strana 13 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Strana 34 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Strana 15 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 86 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.
Strana 15 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 403 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Strana 15 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [ ] people [who mean to *
Strana viii - It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life, that Dr. William Small of Scotland was then Professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind.
Strana 404 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.