Prefatory noteLangtree & O'Sullivan, 1840 - 1624 Seiten |
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... side it was urged by J. Adams , Lee , Wythe and others : That no gentleman had argued against the policy or the right of separation from Britain , nor had sup- posed it possible we should ever renew our connec- tion ; that they had only ...
... side it was urged by J. Adams , Lee , Wythe and others : That no gentleman had argued against the policy or the right of separation from Britain , nor had sup- posed it possible we should ever renew our connec- tion ; that they had only ...
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... side , and asked leave to withdraw from the question , which was given them . The committee rose and reported their reso- lution to the House . Mr. Rutledge , of South Caro- lina , then requested the determination might be put off to ...
... side , and asked leave to withdraw from the question , which was given them . The committee rose and reported their reso- lution to the House . Mr. Rutledge , of South Caro- lina , then requested the determination might be put off to ...
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... side , and the dilatory artifices employed on the other , have frustrated them . All the evidence has been heard , and the proposition for including it within the jurisdiction of some one of the States , debated for some time , but the ...
... side , and the dilatory artifices employed on the other , have frustrated them . All the evidence has been heard , and the proposition for including it within the jurisdiction of some one of the States , debated for some time , but the ...
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... of Virginia with regard to the object of them . If , on the other side , any such change of opinion should have happened , and 74 [ 1780 . CORRESPONDENCE . TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, from Mr MADISON, THEODORICK BLAND Philadelphia, cember 13, ...
... of Virginia with regard to the object of them . If , on the other side , any such change of opinion should have happened , and 74 [ 1780 . CORRESPONDENCE . TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, from Mr MADISON, THEODORICK BLAND Philadelphia, cember 13, ...
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... side of the Mississippi , and within the limits of Virginia , is , in any event , to be yielded to Spain as the price of an alliance with her . Lastly , it is our earnest wish to know what steps it is the pleasure of our constituents we ...
... side of the Mississippi , and within the limits of Virginia , is , in any event , to be yielded to Spain as the price of an alliance with her . Lastly , it is our earnest wish to know what steps it is the pleasure of our constituents we ...
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affairs agreed alliance appointed army Articles of Confederation Assembly authority Britain British Carleton cession circumstances claims Colonies Committee concurrence Confederacy Confederation Congress Connecticut consideration Constitution Court of France creditors DEAR SIR debates debts declared Delegates dollars EDMUND PENDLETON EDMUND RANDOLPH effect enemy equally Executive expected expedient favor Finance foreign former France French funds give gress HAMILTON Hampshire honor hope importance informed instructions interest Jersey JOSEPH JONES justice land late Laurens Legislature letter MADISON Maryland measure ment Ministers mode motion necessary negotiations object observed officers opinion passed peace Pennsylvania Philadelphia present probably proceedings proposed question received recommended requisitions resolution respect revenue Rhode Island RUTLEDGE slaves South Carolina Spain Superintendent of Finance supplies supposed taken taxes territory THOMAS JEFFERSON thought tion treaty unanimously United urged uti possidetis Vermont Virginia vote Washington whole wish yesterday York
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 25 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty...