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... cause was news from New England . The British schooner Gaspée , of eight guns , while chasing smugglers in Narragansett Bay , had run aground on a mud - bank about seven miles from Providence , on the afternoon of June 9 , 1772. Late ...
... cause was news from New England . The British schooner Gaspée , of eight guns , while chasing smugglers in Narragansett Bay , had run aground on a mud - bank about seven miles from Providence , on the afternoon of June 9 , 1772. Late ...
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... cause , and her delegates were sitting in the general Congress , before which his lordship's papers should be laid for common deliberation . " We consider ourselves as bound in honor , as well as interest , to share one general fate ...
... cause , and her delegates were sitting in the general Congress , before which his lordship's papers should be laid for common deliberation . " We consider ourselves as bound in honor , as well as interest , to share one general fate ...
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... cause in Congress , especially as he had the learning and the art to write a power- ful apology for that cause . Our affairs were , as the writers of the time phrased it , " in a delicate pos- ture . " War had actually begun , yet we ...
... cause in Congress , especially as he had the learning and the art to write a power- ful apology for that cause . Our affairs were , as the writers of the time phrased it , " in a delicate pos- ture . " War had actually begun , yet we ...
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... cause is just , our union is perfect , " " resolved rather to die free than live slaves , " " we fight not for glory or conquest , " " against violence actually offered we have taken up arms , we shall lay them down when hostilities ...
... cause is just , our union is perfect , " " resolved rather to die free than live slaves , " " we fight not for glory or conquest , " " against violence actually offered we have taken up arms , we shall lay them down when hostilities ...
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... cause . Jefferson wrote him a letter from Monticello in August , 1775 , beg- ging him to make the true sentiments of the Ameri- cans understood in England . It is one of the most valuable letters we have from Jefferson's pen , de ...
... cause . Jefferson wrote him a letter from Monticello in August , 1775 , beg- ging him to make the true sentiments of the Ameri- cans understood in England . It is one of the most valuable letters we have from Jefferson's pen , de ...
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Page 27 - Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Page 63 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 225 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 292 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 63 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Page 288 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Page 291 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 64 - Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 50 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Page 68 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.