Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Svazek 1F. Carr, and Company, 1820 |
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Strana 154
... EXCELLENCY PATRICK HENRY . Albemarle , March 27 , 1779 . SIR , A report prevailing here , that in consequence of some powers from Congress , the Governor and Council have it in contemplation to remove the Convention troops , * either ...
... EXCELLENCY PATRICK HENRY . Albemarle , March 27 , 1779 . SIR , A report prevailing here , that in consequence of some powers from Congress , the Governor and Council have it in contemplation to remove the Convention troops , * either ...
Strana 162
... Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant , TH : JEFFERSON . LETTER VI . DEAR PAGE , TO JOHN PAGE . Williamsburg , January 22 , 1779 . I received your letter by Mr. Jamieson . It had given me much pain , that the zeal of our ...
... Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant , TH : JEFFERSON . LETTER VI . DEAR PAGE , TO JOHN PAGE . Williamsburg , January 22 , 1779 . I received your letter by Mr. Jamieson . It had given me much pain , that the zeal of our ...
Strana 163
... EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . Williamsburg , June 23 , 1779 . I have the pleasure to enclose you the particulars of Colonel Clarke's success against St. Vincennes , as stated in his letter but lately received ; the messenger , with ...
... EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . Williamsburg , June 23 , 1779 . I have the pleasure to enclose you the particulars of Colonel Clarke's success against St. Vincennes , as stated in his letter but lately received ; the messenger , with ...
Strana 164
... EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . Williamsburg , July 17 , 1779 . I some time ago , enclosed to you a printed copy of an order of Council , by which Governor Hamilton was to be confined in irons , in close jail , which has occasioned a ...
... EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON . Williamsburg , July 17 , 1779 . I some time ago , enclosed to you a printed copy of an order of Council , by which Governor Hamilton was to be confined in irons , in close jail , which has occasioned a ...
Strana 165
... Excellency's most obedient , and most humble servant , TH : JEFFERSON . P. S. I have just received a letter from Colonel Bland , con- taining information of numerous desertions from the Convention troops , not less than four hundred in ...
... Excellency's most obedient , and most humble servant , TH : JEFFERSON . P. S. I have just received a letter from Colonel Bland , con- taining information of numerous desertions from the Convention troops , not less than four hundred in ...
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Strana 19 - 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 19 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 16 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Strana 116 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Strana 17 - 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.
Strana 430 - 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.
Strana 19 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 40 - 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. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Strana 429 - 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 92 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.