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... Virginia and the Two Carolinas - Collision with the Savages - Siege of Fort Loudoun by the Cherokees - Reduction of the Rebellious Indians to Submission - Governor Pownall and Governor Bernard , of Massachusetts - Ill - judged Message ...
... Virginia and the Two Carolinas - Collision with the Savages - Siege of Fort Loudoun by the Cherokees - Reduction of the Rebellious Indians to Submission - Governor Pownall and Governor Bernard , of Massachusetts - Ill - judged Message ...
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... Virginia in this Matter - Lord Dartmouth Secretary of State - Franklin Agent for Massachusetts in London - His Discovery of Hutchin- son's and Oliver's Letters - Rejection of Complaint against Bernard - Commencement of a Revolutionary ...
... Virginia in this Matter - Lord Dartmouth Secretary of State - Franklin Agent for Massachusetts in London - His Discovery of Hutchin- son's and Oliver's Letters - Rejection of Complaint against Bernard - Commencement of a Revolutionary ...
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... Virginia - Speech of Patrick Henry - Resolution of the Virginian Convention to Aid the National Defence - Menaces of the Governor , Lord Dunmore - The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts - George III . and John Wilkes - Position of New ...
... Virginia - Speech of Patrick Henry - Resolution of the Virginian Convention to Aid the National Defence - Menaces of the Governor , Lord Dunmore - The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts - George III . and John Wilkes - Position of New ...
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... Virginia - Collisions with the People - Issue of a Pro- clamation by the Governor promising Freedom to the Slaves - Counter Measures of the Virginian Authorities - The Scotch in Virginia - Action at the Great Bridge near Norfolk ...
... Virginia - Collisions with the People - Issue of a Pro- clamation by the Governor promising Freedom to the Slaves - Counter Measures of the Virginian Authorities - The Scotch in Virginia - Action at the Great Bridge near Norfolk ...
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... Virginia - Sufferings of both Armies - Greene re - crosses the River Dan into North Carolina - Slaughter of Loyalists on the River Haw - Movements of the Opposing Army - Defeat of the Americans at Guildford Court House CHAPTER XLVII ...
... Virginia - Sufferings of both Armies - Greene re - crosses the River Dan into North Carolina - Slaughter of Loyalists on the River Haw - Movements of the Opposing Army - Defeat of the Americans at Guildford Court House CHAPTER XLVII ...
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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.