Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of IndependenceT. Mather, 1834 - 460 pages |
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... character of the other . The minuter portions of our history , and the humbler men who have acted a part therein , must , perhaps , pass into oblivion . But the more important transactions , and the more distinguished characters ...
... character of the other . The minuter portions of our history , and the humbler men who have acted a part therein , must , perhaps , pass into oblivion . But the more important transactions , and the more distinguished characters ...
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... character . But all the co- lonies were soon more or less involved in troubles of vari- ous kinds , arising , in part , from the indefinite tenor of the charter and proprietary grants ; but more than all , from the early jealousy which ...
... character . But all the co- lonies were soon more or less involved in troubles of vari- ous kinds , arising , in part , from the indefinite tenor of the charter and proprietary grants ; but more than all , from the early jealousy which ...
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... sprung from a firm conviction of their illegal and oppressive character - occasioned loud ani ! clamorous complaints in England . Tlie revenue , it was urged would be injured ; and the dependance of the colonies 2 INTRODUCTION . 13.
... sprung from a firm conviction of their illegal and oppressive character - occasioned loud ani ! clamorous complaints in England . Tlie revenue , it was urged would be injured ; and the dependance of the colonies 2 INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... character . The colonists might reduce the iron ore into pigs — they might convert it into bars — it might be furnished them duty free ; but they must have the profit of manufacturing it , beyond this incipient stage . Similar success ...
... character . The colonists might reduce the iron ore into pigs — they might convert it into bars — it might be furnished them duty free ; but they must have the profit of manufacturing it , beyond this incipient stage . Similar success ...
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... character , is the testimony of Pounal , one of the royal governors in America . “ I profess , " said he , in 1765 , “ an affection for the colonies , because , having lived amongst those people in a private as well as in a public character ...
... character , is the testimony of Pounal , one of the royal governors in America . “ I profess , " said he , in 1765 , “ an affection for the colonies , because , having lived amongst those people in a private as well as in a public character ...
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Adams adopted America appointed army arrival assembly attention became body Boston Britain British government British parliament Carolina character citizens Clymer Colonel colonies committee Connecticut constitution continental congress continued convention council court death declaration of independence Delaware delegates discharge distinguished duties early effect elected eminently England entered father favour fortune Franklin friends gentleman Gerry governor gress honour house of burgesses important Jefferson judge justice king latter legislature length liberty M'Kean Maryland Massachusetts measures ment mind minister Morris mother country native New-Jersey New-York occasion parent country parliament patriotism peace Pennsylvania period Philadelphia political possessed present president profession province received rendered represented resolution respect retired Rhode Island Richard Henry Lee ROGER SHERMAN royal Samuel Adams Sherman soon South Carolina spirit stamp act station tion town troops United Virginia vote Washington William WILLIAM WHIPPLE Witherspoon zeal
Popular passages
Page 391 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 424 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 2 - an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of sucli copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled, " an act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 68 - 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.
Page 64 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 63 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause.
Page 125 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
Page 360 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by king James the first, the colonists aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties, and immunities, of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Page 391 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 54 - All and each of which the aforesaid deputies in behalf of themselves, and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.