 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1902 - 452 pages
...The manifesto as published contained only a few words of his, but among them were the following : " We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure." Wonderfully eloquent was that little word " yet "! The threat of all that was to happen next year was... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 710 pages
...prominence over the others ; when, however, each is given its due and proper sphere, they co-operate like " Lest this Declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects iu any part of the Empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - United States - 1905 - 480 pages
...1775, in MacDonald's Select Charters Illustrative of American History, p. 374. This state paper says: "Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us to that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not... | |
 | William Coligny Doub - United States - 1905 - 740 pages
...free from England. In the resolutions which stated the causes for taking up arms, Congress said : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. We have not raised -armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing... | |
 | Francis Bellamy - Presidents - 1905 - 536 pages
...Notwithstanding all this, just after the battle of Bunker Hill, Jefferson wrote these formally pacific words: "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure." To John Randolph he wrote, in this same summer of 1775, that he was sincerely one of those who still... | |
 | William Coligny Doub - United States - 1906 - 652 pages
...become free from England. In the resolutions which stated the causes for taking up arms, Congress said : "Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing... | |
 | John Hampden Hazelton - United States - 1906 - 676 pages
...— setting forth the causes of taking up arms. Though, in effect, a declaration of war, it said: " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." Ill SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX JANUARY j, 1776, gave being to the new army at Cambridge. Washington... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1906 - 620 pages
...resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves. "We assure our friends in any part of the Empire that we mean not to dissolve that union which has...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. ... In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright, in defense of our property... | |
 | William MacDonald - Charters - 1908 - 654 pages
...preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved, to die freemen rather then to live slaves. Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them (hat we ntean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and... | |
 | James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - United States - 1909 - 618 pages
...petition to George III, and promulgated a statement of causes for taking up arms. The latter declared: "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. . . . We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing... | |
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