Prefatory noteLangtree & O'Sullivan, 1840 - 1624 Seiten |
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... wish there may not be some that will not be prevailed on even to end with it . It is much to be regretted that you are not in a condition to discontine another practice equally destructive with temporary enlistments . Unless an end can ...
... wish there may not be some that will not be prevailed on even to end with it . It is much to be regretted that you are not in a condition to discontine another practice equally destructive with temporary enlistments . Unless an end can ...
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... wish to know what steps it is the pleasure of our constituents we should take , in case we should be instructed in no event to concede the claims of Vir- ginia , either to territory or to the navigation of the above - mentioned river ...
... wish to know what steps it is the pleasure of our constituents we should take , in case we should be instructed in no event to concede the claims of Vir- ginia , either to territory or to the navigation of the above - mentioned river ...
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... wish anxiously to hear from you on the subject stated in my letter by Grayson , and in my subse- quent one by the post . Circumstances which I do not choose unnecessarily to hazard by the post , have made it expedient to lay the matter ...
... wish anxiously to hear from you on the subject stated in my letter by Grayson , and in my subse- quent one by the post . Circumstances which I do not choose unnecessarily to hazard by the post , have made it expedient to lay the matter ...
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... wish it could have reached the Assembly before your leaving it . mas . TO EDMUND PENDLETON . Philadelphia , January 9th , 1781 . DEAR SIR , I have again the pleasure to begin with acknow- ledging the receipt of a favor from you , that ...
... wish it could have reached the Assembly before your leaving it . mas . TO EDMUND PENDLETON . Philadelphia , January 9th , 1781 . DEAR SIR , I have again the pleasure to begin with acknow- ledging the receipt of a favor from you , that ...
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... wish you had told me what you think of such an appointment . It is pretty certain , I believe , that people in general will not consider it as a proof of confidence in the ordi- nary delegation . As Mr. Jones , who , I believe , pos ...
... wish you had told me what you think of such an appointment . It is pretty certain , I believe , that people in general will not consider it as a proof of confidence in the ordi- nary delegation . As Mr. Jones , who , I believe , pos ...
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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...