 | Methodist Church - 1842 - 700 pages
...formerly united both countries." The congress of 1 775 also declare that "we mean not to dissolve the union which has so long and so happily subsisted between...us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." It was not then on account of any dissatisfaction with the form of the English constitution that the... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 488 pages
...than to live slaves. Lest this declaration shall disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we...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... | |
 | Sons of the American Revolution - 1914 - 86 pages
...Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of then taking up arms," which concludes as follows: "Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. * * * "In our own native land, in defence of freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed... | |
 | William Jay - Peace - 1919 - 96 pages
...army, and making every preparation for war, Congress published a declaration in which they affirm: "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure: we have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain and establishing... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1920 - 296 pages
...the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen than to live slaves. " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to incite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating... | |
 | Ellwood Griscom (jr.) - Americanization - 1920 - 280 pages
...the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen than to live slaves. friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire,...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, nor induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious... | |
 | Thomas Willing - Merchants - 1922 - 312 pages
...Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Worthington Chauncey Ford, editor, Washington, 1904, Volume I., page 119. declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends...subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored."17 It was Thomas Jefferson who wrote this public document, and it was received with marks... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1922 - 360 pages
...the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen than to live slaves. " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and 10 happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1922 - 696 pages
...to dissolve that union [between England and the colonies] which has so long and so happily existed and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us to that desperate measure. ... In defence of the freedom which is our birthright we have taken up arms.... | |
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Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to... 
