 | United States. Continental Congress - 1904 - 212 Seiten
...of government and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. — Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...shall consider your enemies as our enemies, and your interest as our own. But if you are determined that your Ministers shall wantonly sport with the rights... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 458 Seiten
...impatient of government, and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...shall consider your enemies as our enemies and your interest as our own. But if you are determined that your ministers shall wantonly sport with the rights... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1907 - 588 Seiten
...and another to the people of British America, including Quebec. To the English people it was said: "Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness ;" and this expressed, without doubt, the feeling of a large majority of the Americans of the day,... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1908 - 600 Seiten
...impatient of Government, and desirous of Independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...shall consider your enemies as our enemies, and your interest as our own. But if you are determined that your Ministers shall wantonly sport with the rights... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1910 - 404 Seiten
...independence. Their feeling was expressed by Jay in his address to the people of Great Britain : " Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness." Before 1775 there was no question of separation. During all the Revolution Adams declared that he would... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1910 - 304 Seiten
...the republic. ' "Permit us to be as free as yourselves," they said to the people of Great Britain, "and we shall ever esteem a union with you to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness." "No," answered Parliament. "Protect us as a loving father," they said to the king, "and forbid a licentious... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - 1911 - 818 Seiten
...brethren what their fathers and our fathers said to England through the Colonial Congress of 1774: "Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness ; but we must tell you that we will never submit to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for any... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 488 Seiten
...government, and desirous of independency. Be assured," they said, "that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...contribute all in our power to the welfare of the whole empire ; we shall consider your enemies as our enemies, and your interest as our own. ' ' In... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1913 - 450 Seiten
...have been told that we are impatient of government and desirous of independency. These are calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall...be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness.' To Chatham the petition seemed ' decent, manly, and properly expressed ' ; he called Congress ' the... | |
 | Charles Franklin Warwick - 1913 - 454 Seiten
...addressed to the people of Great Britain, it said: "Permit us to be as free as yourselves and we will ever esteem a union with you to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness. We will ever be ready to contribute all in our power to the welfare of the Empire. We will consider your... | |
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You have been told that we are seditious, impatient of government, and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you to be our greatest glory... 
