 | James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 482 Seiten
...God's sake, tell me," he wrote to David Humphreys in October, "what is the cause of these commotions ? Do they proceed from licentiousness, British influence...grievances which admit of redress ? If the latter, why were they delayed until the public mind had become so agitated ? If the former, why are not the powers... | |
 | Edmund Sears Morgan - 1976 - 114 Seiten
...me what is the cause of all these commotions; do they proceed from licentiousness, British-influence disseminated by the tories, or real grievances which admit of redress? If the latter, why were they delayed till the public mind had become so much agitated? If the former why are not the powers... | |
 | 1921 - 800 Seiten
...an outburst of shocked amazement : " For God's sake tell me what is the cause of these commotions? Do they proceed from licentiousness, British influence...grievances which admit of redress? If the latter, why were they delayed until the public mind had become so agitated? If the former, why are not the powers... | |
 | Don Higginbotham - 2001 - 356 Seiten
...me what is the cause of all these commotions; do they proceed from licentiousness, British-influence disseminated by the tories, or real grievances which admit of redress? If the latter, why were they delayed till the public mind had become so much agitated? If the former why are not the powers... | |
 | Joel Achenbach - 2004 - 414 Seiten
...former aide, David Humphreys, "[F]or Gods sake tell me, what is the cause of all these commotions? Do they proceed from licentiousness, British influence...Tories, or real grievances which admit of redress?" In the fall of 1786, after the failure at Annapolis, Washington came near to despairing of his country's... | |
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If the latter, why was redress delayed until the public mind had become so much agitated ? If the former, why are not the powers of government tried at once ? It is as well to be without as not to exercise them. 
