Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 21

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Ohio Historical Society., 1912 - Ohio

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Page 140 - It having pleased the Supreme Governor of the Universe, in the disposition of human affairs, to cause the separation of the Colonies of North America from the domination of Great Britain, and after a bloody conflict of eight years, to establish them free, independent, and sovereign States, connected, by alliances founded on reciprocal advantages, with some of the greatest princes and powers of the earth.
Page 374 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Page 274 - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
Page 287 - If I were a Mexican I would tell you, "Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves.
Page 157 - The committee conceive it but justice to the commander in chief, to say, that, in their opinion, the failure of the late expedition can, in no respect, be imputed to his conduct, either at any time before or during the action...
Page 219 - It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate «ither of his virtue or felicity...
Page 219 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 447 - Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men : they make the earth wholesome.
Page 257 - Governor on their behalf. When he made his speech in council with us, he seemed to be impressed with an awful premonition of his approaching fate ; for he repeatedly said, " When I was a young man and went to war, I thought that might be the last time, and I would return no more. Now I am here amongst you ; you may kill me if you please ; I can die but once ; and it is all one to me, now or another time.
Page 140 - To perpetuate, therefore, as well the remembrance of this vast event as the mutual friendships which have been formed under the pressure of common danger, and, in many instances, cemented by the blood of the parties, the officers of the American army do hereby, in the most solemn manner, associate, constitute, and combine themselves into one Society of Friends, to endure as long as they shall endure, or any of their eldest male posterity, and in failure thereof the collateral branches who may be...

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