Prefatory noteLangtree & O'Sullivan, 1840 - Počet stran: 1624 |
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Strana 10
... observed was wise and proper now , of deferring to take any capital step till the voice of the people drove us into it : That they were our power , and without them our declarations could not be carried into effect : That the people of ...
... observed was wise and proper now , of deferring to take any capital step till the voice of the people drove us into it : That they were our power , and without them our declarations could not be carried into effect : That the people of ...
Strana 28
... observed that negroes are property , and as such cannot be distinguished from the lands or personali- ties held in those States where there are few slaves . That the surplus of profit which a Northern farmer is able to lay by , he ...
... observed that negroes are property , and as such cannot be distinguished from the lands or personali- ties held in those States where there are few slaves . That the surplus of profit which a Northern farmer is able to lay by , he ...
Strana 29
... observed , that the numbers of people were taken by this article as an index of the wealth of the State , and not as subjects of taxation . That as to this matter it was of no consequence by what name you called your people , whether by ...
... observed , that the numbers of people were taken by this article as an index of the wealth of the State , and not as subjects of taxation . That as to this matter it was of no consequence by what name you called your people , whether by ...
Strana 33
... observed , that this article was the most likely to divide us , of any one proposed in the draught then under consideration . That the larger Colonies had threatened they would not confederate at all , if their weight in Congress should ...
... observed , that this article was the most likely to divide us , of any one proposed in the draught then under consideration . That the larger Colonies had threatened they would not confederate at all , if their weight in Congress should ...
Strana 35
... observed that foreign powers , discovering this blemish , would make it a handle for disengaging the smaller States from so unequal a confederacy . That the Colonies should in fact be considered as individuals ; and that as such , in ...
... observed that foreign powers , discovering this blemish , would make it a handle for disengaging the smaller States from so unequal a confederacy . That the Colonies should in fact be considered as individuals ; and that as such , in ...
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Strana 26 - 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 23 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 378 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Strana 23 - He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these states] refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Strana 28 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Strana 26 - 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 crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Strana 11 - Congress should 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 connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
Strana 23 - ... people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people...
Strana 25 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty...