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... Congress— Town Meetings , June 17th - Troops and Artillery on Boston Common - The Castle Batteries and the Fleet - Mistakes of Gage Salem and Marblehead - Relief Committees for the distressed Boston Poor - George Washington in Virginia ...
... Congress— Town Meetings , June 17th - Troops and Artillery on Boston Common - The Castle Batteries and the Fleet - Mistakes of Gage Salem and Marblehead - Relief Committees for the distressed Boston Poor - George Washington in Virginia ...
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... Congress - Want of Reliable Intelligence in England as to what was going on in America - Lord Dunmore , Governor of Virgina - His Policy of encroaching on the Limits of other States --- Indian War in the West - A Forest Battle , and ...
... Congress - Want of Reliable Intelligence in England as to what was going on in America - Lord Dunmore , Governor of Virgina - His Policy of encroaching on the Limits of other States --- Indian War in the West - A Forest Battle , and ...
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... Congress - Position of George III . in the Controversy - Rumoured Plot to capture the King- Want of Troops - Negotiations with the Empress Catharine , of Russia - Capricious Conduct of the Empress - Other Attempts to obtain Assistance ...
... Congress - Position of George III . in the Controversy - Rumoured Plot to capture the King- Want of Troops - Negotiations with the Empress Catharine , of Russia - Capricious Conduct of the Empress - Other Attempts to obtain Assistance ...
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... Congress : whether in Proportion to Numbers , or simply by States - Speeches of Chase , Franklin , Witherspoon , John Adams , and Wilson - State Rights and Federal Rights - The Declaration of Independence read before the American Army ...
... Congress : whether in Proportion to Numbers , or simply by States - Speeches of Chase , Franklin , Witherspoon , John Adams , and Wilson - State Rights and Federal Rights - The Declaration of Independence read before the American Army ...
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... Congress - Conway's Cabal against Washington - Meeting of the British Parliament in November , 1777 - References to America in the King's Speech - Chatham's Opposition to the Address - Effect in England of the News of Burgoyne's ...
... Congress - Conway's Cabal against Washington - Meeting of the British Parliament in November , 1777 - References to America in the King's Speech - Chatham's Opposition to the Address - Effect in England of the News of Burgoyne's ...
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Seite 255 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Seite 254 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 249 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Seite 540 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Seite 237 - 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.
Seite 134 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Seite 134 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, — they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 143 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Seite 134 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another— ^-that these two things may exist without any mutual relation — the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Seite 302 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.