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Lastly , a general Congress is calculated to afford the most perfect guaranty ,
which can be given , of the security of the several states , or of the enjoyment of
their rights and privileges as independent sovereignties . As the representatives ...
Lastly , a general Congress is calculated to afford the most perfect guaranty ,
which can be given , of the security of the several states , or of the enjoyment of
their rights and privileges as independent sovereignties . As the representatives ...
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And what a triumph of modern civilization , that a measure like this , à proposal to
sever an empire , to erect an independent government over a vast region , on a
continent where the word of independence had never been uttered , should have
...
And what a triumph of modern civilization , that a measure like this , à proposal to
sever an empire , to erect an independent government over a vast region , on a
continent where the word of independence had never been uttered , should have
...
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... that the patriots and statesmen of the Revolution never conceived of the States
as independent sovereigns , in the same sense that England and France are
independent of each other , which is now the cant , for it deserves no better name
.
... that the patriots and statesmen of the Revolution never conceived of the States
as independent sovereigns , in the same sense that England and France are
independent of each other , which is now the cant , for it deserves no better name
.
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This was done by him , in the following words , “ That these United Colonies are
and of right ought to be free and independent states ; and that all political
connexion between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally ...
This was done by him , in the following words , “ That these United Colonies are
and of right ought to be free and independent states ; and that all political
connexion between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally ...
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nection which may heretofore and INDEPENDENT STATES ; that have subsisted
between us and they are absolved from all allegithe parliament or people of
Great ance to the British Crown , and Britain ; and finally we do assert that all ...
nection which may heretofore and INDEPENDENT STATES ; that have subsisted
between us and they are absolved from all allegithe parliament or people of
Great ance to the British Crown , and Britain ; and finally we do assert that all ...
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Seite 390 - 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.
Seite 434 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Seite 391 - ... CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & 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...
Seite 388 - 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 370 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Seite 389 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 387 - ... such government, and to provide new guards for their future security- such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government...
Seite 63 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Seite 438 - Take thy banner ! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it ! — till our homes are free ! Guard it ! — God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then.
Seite 391 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...