 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...  American Quarterly Review - Page 3981827Full view - About this book
 | James Schouler - Presidents - 1893 - 270 pages
...single word, when italicized, brings out the pregnant possibility in the very breath of a disclaimer. " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 592 pages
...Bunker Hill : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow- subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain and establishing... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover Stanard - Virginia - 1897 - 630 pages
...than live slaves. Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow subjects in any part of the Empire, we assure them, that we...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not driven us into that measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 582 pages
...necessity of taking up arms, adopted July 6, 1775, a few weeks after the battle of Bunker Hill : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mcan not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between sus, and which we... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 456 pages
...preservation of our liberties, being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves. Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - Electronic journals - 1896 - 830 pages
...celebrated declaration, " setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms," wherein they say: "Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. . . . We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1896 - 812 pages
...with one mind, resolved to die frcemen rather than live slaves. Lest this Deelaration sheuld disqniet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any...that union which has so long and so happily subsisted betwcen ns, and which we sincerely wish to sce restored. Necessity has not yet driven ns into that... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 546 pages
...liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves." They then continue : " Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of...between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us to that desperate measure." — Writings of Dickinson. Dickinson was... | |
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