 | John Warner Barber - 1860 - 478 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to officers of the army, for services then to be performed : it was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honour ; it can never be considered... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 804 Seiten
...half-pay and commutation, he observed : — else to give to officers of the army, for services then to be performed : it was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is, therefore, more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor; it can never be considered... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...allowed to say it was the price of their blood and of 14 life of tdasbington your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 596 Seiten
...nothing else to give the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only meaas to prevent a total dereliction of the service. It...to say it was the price of their blood and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor." Although we have touched... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 Seiten
...congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to officers of the army, for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...to say, it was the price of their blood and of your independency. It is therefore more than a common debt ; it is a debt of honor ; it can never be considered... | |
 | 1880 - 698 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to officers of the army, for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...to say, it was the price of their blood and of your independency. It is therefore more than a common debt; it is a debt of honor; it can never be considered... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 828 Seiten
...at a time when they had nothing else to give, to the officers of the army for services, then to be performed ; it was the only means to prevent a total...to say, it was the price of their blood and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt ; it is a debt of honor ; it can never be considered... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 732 Seiten
...congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give, to the officers of the army for services then to be performed; it was the only means to prevent a total...allowed to say, it was the price of their blood and your independency; it is therefore more than a common debt; it is a debt of honor; it can never be... | |
 | 1886 - 190 Seiten
...Congress at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...to say it was the price of their blood and of your independency ; it is, therefore, more than a common debt ; it is a debt of honor ; it can never be... | |
 | George Washington - 1886 - 78 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to officers of the army, for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...to say, it was the price of their blood and of your independency. It is therefore more than n common debt; it is a debt of honor; it can never be considered... | |
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That provision should be viewed, as it really was, a reasonable compensation offered by Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total dereliction... 
