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" We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We. have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. "
History of the United States from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the ... - Page 143
by Salma Hale - 1827 - 305 pages
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National Documents: State Papers So Arranged as to Illustrate the Growth of ...

Adelaide Louise Rouse - United States - 1904 - 514 pages
...and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. —...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. — Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from...
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Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 2

United States. Continental Congress - Constitutional history - 1905 - 270 pages
...who know wo dcspiso them and that they deserve -to be thus dcspiecd -are therefore implaeaete Tyranny of irritated ministers, or Resistance by Force. The latter is our Choice. We know, that by an infamous Surrender of the Freedom and Happiness of ourselves and our Posterity, we...
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Some Papers Laid Before the Continental Congress, 1775-

United States - 1905 - 88 pages
...who know wc despise them and that they deserve to bc thus despised are therefore implaeable Tyranny of irritated ministers, or Resistance by Force. The latter is our Choice. Wc know, that by an infamoua Surrender of the Frcedom and HappincBS of ourselves and our Posterity,...
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Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789, Volume 2

United States. Continental Congress - Constitutional history - 1905 - 268 pages
...who know we despise them and that they deserve'. to be thus despised are therefore implaeable Tyranny of irritated ministers, or Resistance by Force. The latter is our Choice. Wo know, that by an infamous Surrender of the Freedom and Happiness of ourselves and our Posterity,...
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Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1898, Volume 10

William MacDonald - Charters - 1908 - 654 pages
...and famine. We l are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. —...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. — Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from...
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A Source History of the United States: From Discovery (1492) to End of ...

Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...Gage. . . . We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. —...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. . . . Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary,...
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The Beginnings of the American Revolution: Based on Contemporary ..., Volume 3

Ellen Chase - United States - 1910 - 456 pages
...them. . . . We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. —...humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. Well did they redeem the pledge that follows:...
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Haym Salomon: The Financier of the Revolution : an Unwritten Chapter in ...

Madison Clinton Peters - Jews - 1911 - 54 pages
..." It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. We have counted the cost of this contest and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." Samuel Adams, hungry and poorly clad, rejected with scorn the offer of a profitable office, wealth,...
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The Great Republic, Volume 2

Charles Morris - United States - 1913 - 434 pages
...are reduced," said they, " to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." An army of twenty thousand men was ordered to be enlisted, and George Washington was elected commander-in-chief...
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The Jews who Stood by Washington: An Unwritten Chapter in American History

Madison Clinton Peters - United States - 1915 - 88 pages
..." It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. We have counted the cost of this contest and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." Samuel Adams, hungry and poorly clad, rejected with scorn the offer of a profitable office, wealth,...
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