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... legislature for making the Rivanna River a navigable highway for the commerce of Albemarle County . Just at the moment when Jefferson was coming into his inheritance the curtain rose on the prologue to the tragedy of the American ...
... legislature for making the Rivanna River a navigable highway for the commerce of Albemarle County . Just at the moment when Jefferson was coming into his inheritance the curtain rose on the prologue to the tragedy of the American ...
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... legislature of Massachusetts , through Governor Bernard , to re- scind the letter . The legislature refused to obey by a vote of ninety - two to seventeen , and was dissolved by the governor . Two regiments of redcoats were brought ...
... legislature of Massachusetts , through Governor Bernard , to re- scind the letter . The legislature refused to obey by a vote of ninety - two to seventeen , and was dissolved by the governor . Two regiments of redcoats were brought ...
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... Legislature , declared the right of the colonies to make their petitions for redress of grievances an affair of common colonial action . Jefferson was on the committee to prepare the ad- dress in reply to the governor's speech , and at ...
... Legislature , declared the right of the colonies to make their petitions for redress of grievances an affair of common colonial action . Jefferson was on the committee to prepare the ad- dress in reply to the governor's speech , and at ...
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... legislature , every one of whom received the indorsement of re - election by his constituents . Two or three years of com- parative quiet in the rising dispute with the mother country followed the appointment of Lord North as prime ...
... legislature , every one of whom received the indorsement of re - election by his constituents . Two or three years of com- parative quiet in the rising dispute with the mother country followed the appointment of Lord North as prime ...
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... legislatures , the punishment of Boston . He examines the conduct of George III : the vetoes on colonial laws , the arbi- trary instructions to colonial governors , the exercise of feudal privileges over the soil , the landing of troops ...
... legislatures , the punishment of Boston . He examines the conduct of George III : the vetoes on colonial laws , the arbi- trary instructions to colonial governors , the exercise of feudal privileges over the soil , the landing of troops ...
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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.