Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volumul 9R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... determination which we must make in the subject of this day's de- . bate , will greatly affect posterity as well as ourselves , it surely merits our most serious attention . If this be bestowed , it will appear both from reason and ...
... determination which we must make in the subject of this day's de- . bate , will greatly affect posterity as well as ourselves , it surely merits our most serious attention . If this be bestowed , it will appear both from reason and ...
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... the American question . So circumstanced here , the cause of American liberty will be desperate indeed , if it find not a firm support in the virtuous and determined resolution of the peo- ple · • RICHARD HENRY LEE . 30.
... the American question . So circumstanced here , the cause of American liberty will be desperate indeed , if it find not a firm support in the virtuous and determined resolution of the peo- ple · • RICHARD HENRY LEE . 30.
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John Sanderson Robert Waln, Henry Dilworth Gilpin. in the virtuous and determined resolution of the peo- ple of America . This is our last , our surest hope , this our trust and refuge . " Another letter , .written about the same time ...
John Sanderson Robert Waln, Henry Dilworth Gilpin. in the virtuous and determined resolution of the peo- ple of America . This is our last , our surest hope , this our trust and refuge . " Another letter , .written about the same time ...
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... determination of admiralty courts , where the constitutional trial by jury is not permitted . " While many , during the following year , 1773 , lis- tened with melancholy attention , to the rumours spread abroad , in consequence of the ...
... determination of admiralty courts , where the constitutional trial by jury is not permitted . " While many , during the following year , 1773 , lis- tened with melancholy attention , to the rumours spread abroad , in consequence of the ...
Pagina 34
... determination , united with dispassionate observation and calm rea- soning , as would obtain for it , even from the enemies of America , respect and consideration . Lord North , the king's minister , suffered no pas- sion to divert , no ...
... determination , united with dispassionate observation and calm rea- soning , as would obtain for it , even from the enemies of America , respect and consideration . Lord North , the king's minister , suffered no pas- sion to divert , no ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 85 - That the people of this State ought to have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...