An Inquiry Into the Views, Services, Principles, and Influences of the Leading Men in the Origination of Our Union: And in the Formation and Early Administration of Our Present Government, Volume 1Saxton and Kelt, 1847 - United States |
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... raised the troops speedily , it would have struck the Ministry with astonishment . They could not expect to conquer a people so united , firm , and absolutely determined . ' 1776 . Gen. Washington to Joseph Reed , Jan. 14 . The ...
... raised the troops speedily , it would have struck the Ministry with astonishment . They could not expect to conquer a people so united , firm , and absolutely determined . ' 1776 . Gen. Washington to Joseph Reed , Jan. 14 . The ...
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... raised against you in 1777 , is not yet destroyed . I speak not from conjecture , but from certain knowledge . Their plan . is to take every method of proving the danger arising from a Com- mander , who enjoys the full and unlimited ...
... raised against you in 1777 , is not yet destroyed . I speak not from conjecture , but from certain knowledge . Their plan . is to take every method of proving the danger arising from a Com- mander , who enjoys the full and unlimited ...
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... raised by this colony ; and proposals are made by us to the Congress of New Hampshire , and the Governments of Rhode Island and Connecticut Colonies , for furnishing men in the same proportion . ' The sudden exigency of our public ...
... raised by this colony ; and proposals are made by us to the Congress of New Hampshire , and the Governments of Rhode Island and Connecticut Colonies , for furnishing men in the same proportion . ' The sudden exigency of our public ...
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... of five be appointed to bring in an estimate of the money necessary to be raised . ' The Congress then proceeded to choose , by ballot , Mr. Wash- ington , Mr. Schuyler , Mr. Deane , Mr. Cushing 66 PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS , IN 1775 .
... of five be appointed to bring in an estimate of the money necessary to be raised . ' The Congress then proceeded to choose , by ballot , Mr. Wash- ington , Mr. Schuyler , Mr. Deane , Mr. Cushing 66 PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS , IN 1775 .
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... raised , brought in their report , which was read and referred to the committee of the whole . ' On motion , ' Resolved , That Thursday the 20th of July next , be observed throughout the twelve United Colonies , as a day of humilia ...
... raised , brought in their report , which was read and referred to the committee of the whole . ' On motion , ' Resolved , That Thursday the 20th of July next , be observed throughout the twelve United Colonies , as a day of humilia ...
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Page 26 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Page 69 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.
Page 27 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Page 32 - ... any person within the limits of their appointment, has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to...
Page 129 - Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Page 28 - All and each of which the aforesaid deputies, in behalf of themselves and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.
Page 479 - Our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions, and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times.
Page 27 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Page 285 - The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo, has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, 'and by companies at a time.
Page 28 - It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.