History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789], Volume 4D. Appleton, 1884 - United States |
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... reason were they more sensitive to its tyranny . Taxing them without their consent was robbing them of their birthright ; they scorned the British parliament as " a junto of the servants of the crown , rather than the rep- resentatives ...
... reason were they more sensitive to its tyranny . Taxing them without their consent was robbing them of their birthright ; they scorned the British parliament as " a junto of the servants of the crown , rather than the rep- resentatives ...
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... reason to think that their government was liable to be subverted at our pleasure and rendered entirely despotic . From thence all were taught to consider the town of Boston as suffering in the common cause . " While the king , in the ...
... reason to think that their government was liable to be subverted at our pleasure and rendered entirely despotic . From thence all were taught to consider the town of Boston as suffering in the common cause . " While the king , in the ...
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... reason . Accordingly , Warren , on the fifth , reported " a solemn league and covenant " to suspend all commercial intercourse with the mother coun- try , and neither to purchase nor consume any merchandise from Great Britain after the ...
... reason . Accordingly , Warren , on the fifth , reported " a solemn league and covenant " to suspend all commercial intercourse with the mother coun- try , and neither to purchase nor consume any merchandise from Great Britain after the ...
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... reason that the conduct of those predecessors had been approved , and therefore the language " was an insult to the king and an affront to himself . " The house of representatives was the fullest ever known . The continent looked to ...
... reason that the conduct of those predecessors had been approved , and therefore the language " was an insult to the king and an affront to himself . " The house of representatives was the fullest ever known . The continent looked to ...
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... reasons , " said he , " and sometimes for no conceivable reason at all , his majesty has rejected laws of the most salutary tendency . The abolition of domestic slavery is the great ob- ject of desire in those colonies where it was ...
... reasons , " said he , " and sometimes for no conceivable reason at all , his majesty has rejected laws of the most salutary tendency . The abolition of domestic slavery is the great ob- ject of desire in those colonies where it was ...
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Page 447 - 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 mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 113 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Page 342 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 418 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Page 140 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
Page 141 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy...
Page 17 - Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine Interposition for averting the heavy Calamity, which threatens Destruction to our civil Rights, and the Evils of civil War; to give us one Heart and one Mind firmly to oppose, by all just and proper Means, every Injury to American Rights...
Page 274 - Believe me, dear sir, there is not in the British Empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in this I think I speak the sentiments of America.
Page 74 - We will neither import nor purchase, any slave imported after the first day of December next ; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Page 442 - The second * day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to' be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.