Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Svazek 4John Sanderson, Robert Waln W. Brown and C. Peters, 1828 This work contains biographies on all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. |
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... object of peculiar watchfulness on the part of the enemy , the just performance of Mr. M'Kean's judicial functions required not only the learning of the lawyer , but the unyielding spirit of the patriot . Pro- claiming from the bench ...
... object of peculiar watchfulness on the part of the enemy , the just performance of Mr. M'Kean's judicial functions required not only the learning of the lawyer , but the unyielding spirit of the patriot . Pro- claiming from the bench ...
Strana 27
... object of peculiar watchfulness on the part of the enemy , the just performance of Mr. M'Kean's judicial functions required not only the learning of the lawyer , but the unyielding spirit of the patriot . Pro- claiming from the bench ...
... object of peculiar watchfulness on the part of the enemy , the just performance of Mr. M'Kean's judicial functions required not only the learning of the lawyer , but the unyielding spirit of the patriot . Pro- claiming from the bench ...
Strana 32
... objects of impeachment . " The assembly resolved itself into a committee of the whole , to hear the evidence in support of the charges exhibited ; and three days were consumed in the examination of witnesses . William Lewis , as a ...
... objects of impeachment . " The assembly resolved itself into a committee of the whole , to hear the evidence in support of the charges exhibited ; and three days were consumed in the examination of witnesses . William Lewis , as a ...
Strana 37
... object of high importance and general interest . " Perhaps a more singular contrivance to produce precipita- tion and incaution in that department , where deliberation was a duty , and to generate slowness and irresolution , when vigour ...
... object of high importance and general interest . " Perhaps a more singular contrivance to produce precipita- tion and incaution in that department , where deliberation was a duty , and to generate slowness and irresolution , when vigour ...
Strana 38
... object of solicitude . But it had many friends . As a product of the revolution , to approve it was sometimes considered as a test of political rectitude . The name of Franklin was used to recommend it to popular favour , although it ...
... object of solicitude . But it had many friends . As a product of the revolution , to approve it was sometimes considered as a test of political rectitude . The name of Franklin was used to recommend it to popular favour , although it ...
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adopted affairs America Annapolis appointed arms assembly attention Britain British cause character Charles Carroll Chase chief justice citizens colonies commerce committee conduct congress considered constitution convention council court Declaration of Independence Delaware delegates distinguished duties elected eloquence enemy England established excitement executive exertions favour feelings firmness foreign France friends gentlemen George Wythe governor gress happiness honour house of burgesses immediately important instructions interest Jefferson judge July June jury king legislature letter liberty M'Kean Maryland measures ment mind nation object occasion opinion oppression Paca parliament party patriot peace period persons Philadelphia political present president principles proceedings province province of Maryland racter reason received remarkable resolution respect retirement Richard Henry Lee Samuel Chase secure senate sentiments spirit stamp act talents Thomas Jefferson tion treaty unanimously United Virginia vote whole William Paca Wythe zeal
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Strana 247 - 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 314 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Strana 314 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Strana 199 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Strana 247 - 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 restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 247 - 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 249 - 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...
Strana 245 - He has endeavoured 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 345 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.