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... votes , was easily rescinded when the un- suspecting Henry had gone home . One of those who listened entranced to the ... vote ! " Another kinsman , Colonel Peter Randolph , came to the house next morning and succeeded in having the bold ...
... votes , was easily rescinded when the un- suspecting Henry had gone home . One of those who listened entranced to the ... vote ! " Another kinsman , Colonel Peter Randolph , came to the house next morning and succeeded in having the bold ...
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... votes , had kept lunch and punch ready at Shadwell for hungry and thirsty electors , had attended at the polls , and bowed his thanks to those who voted for him . The Virginia resolutions of 1765 had created such a threatening ...
... votes , had kept lunch and punch ready at Shadwell for hungry and thirsty electors , had attended at the polls , and bowed his thanks to those who voted for him . The Virginia resolutions of 1765 had created such a threatening ...
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... voted its adoption with great gusto . The courteous preliminaries having been ad- justed according to hoary precedent , the burgesses settled down to business . They at once passed sundry resolutions , the most important of which was ...
... voted its adoption with great gusto . The courteous preliminaries having been ad- justed according to hoary precedent , the burgesses settled down to business . They at once passed sundry resolutions , the most important of which was ...
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... vote ? If so , upon what terms ? Should the ignorant , semi - savage from the coast of Africa , where voodooism and cannibalism were rife , be given the same political rights as George Washington ? Should a jabbering barbarian who had ...
... vote ? If so , upon what terms ? Should the ignorant , semi - savage from the coast of Africa , where voodooism and cannibalism were rife , be given the same political rights as George Washington ? Should a jabbering barbarian who had ...
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... voted for Patrick Henry's reso- lutions against the Stamp Act . He was not taken into the meetings of the younger , bolder leaders of the burgesses ; and was not a member of their Revolutionary Committee . When Dunmore removed the ...
... voted for Patrick Henry's reso- lutions against the Stamp Act . He was not taken into the meetings of the younger , bolder leaders of the burgesses ; and was not a member of their Revolutionary Committee . When Dunmore removed the ...
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Page 527 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 526 - ... that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties.
Page 526 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Page 527 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 529 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 528 - ... 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 antirepublican 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 527 - Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe ; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others ; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation...
Page 528 - About to enter, fellow citizens upon the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently, those which ought to shape its administration.
Page 526 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and as capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty...
Page 529 - ... the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected.