An Inquiry Into the Views, Services, Principles, and Influences of the Leading Men in the Origination of Our Union: And in the Formation and Early Administration of Our Present Government, Band 1Saxton and Kelt, 1847 |
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... request you , then and there , to meet , consult , and advise , touching such matters as are most likely to effect our deliverance from the evils with which our country is threatened . ' The importance of those things which will offer ...
... request you , then and there , to meet , consult , and advise , touching such matters as are most likely to effect our deliverance from the evils with which our country is threatened . ' The importance of those things which will offer ...
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... request from the joint committees of every town and dis- trict in the county of Middlesex , in the said Province , communicated to the Congress the proceedings of those committees at Concord , on the 30th and 31st days of August last ...
... request from the joint committees of every town and dis- trict in the county of Middlesex , in the said Province , communicated to the Congress the proceedings of those committees at Concord , on the 30th and 31st days of August last ...
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... request the advice of the Congress . Ordered , That this letter be taken into consideration to - morrow morning . ' ' Friday , October 7. Resolved , That a committee be appointed to prepare a letter to his excellency General Gage ...
... request the advice of the Congress . Ordered , That this letter be taken into consideration to - morrow morning . ' ' Friday , October 7. Resolved , That a committee be appointed to prepare a letter to his excellency General Gage ...
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... requested to call in the aid of such noblemen and gentlemen as are esteemed firm friends to American liberty . ' Ordered , That Mr. Lee and Mr. Jay prepare a letter to the agents . 26th . The letter to the agents , being brought in by ...
... requested to call in the aid of such noblemen and gentlemen as are esteemed firm friends to American liberty . ' Ordered , That Mr. Lee and Mr. Jay prepare a letter to the agents . 26th . The letter to the agents , being brought in by ...
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... request their coöpera- tion in making up an army of twenty thousand men . * A circular letter was addressed to the several Ministers in the Province , requesting their assistance in averting the threatened slavery . The form of the ...
... request their coöpera- tion in making up an army of twenty thousand men . * A circular letter was addressed to the several Ministers in the Province , requesting their assistance in averting the threatened slavery . The form of the ...
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America appointed arms army arrived artillery Assembly attention battalions beg leave Boston brigade Britain Camp Canada Carolina cause Colonel command committee Committee of Safety Connecticut consideration Continental army Continental Congress Continental troops Convention Council of Safety DEAR SIR December defence Delaware directed duty enclosed enemy enemy's engaged enlisted exertions expect favor force gentlemen give Governor gress HEAD-QUARTERS honor hope immediately informed instant Island Jersey JOSEPH REED June letter liberty Lond Major-General Massachusetts Bay measures ment militia MORRISTOWN necessary necessity officers opinion Peekskill Pennsylvania Peyton Randolph Philadelphia present PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS prisoners proper Province raised RALPH IZARD received recommended regiments request Resolution Resolved respect Rhode Island RICHARD HENRY LEE River Schuyler sent situation soldiers soon South Carolina Sparks supply thousand tion Trenton Trumbull Virginia Wash Washington whole wish Writ yesterday York
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Seite 26 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Seite 69 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.
Seite 27 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Seite 32 - ... any person within the limits of their appointment, has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to...
Seite 129 - Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Seite 28 - All and each of which the aforesaid deputies, in behalf of themselves and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.
Seite 479 - Our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions, and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times.
Seite 27 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 285 - The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo, has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, 'and by companies at a time.
Seite 28 - It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.