 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...live slaves. Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellowsubjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has... | |
 | John Jay - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 80 pages
...declaration " setting forth the cause and necessity of their taking up arms," and in this they proclaimed, "we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and eo happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." On the 8th of July,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 704 pages
...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 mean not...subsisted between us. and which we sincerely wish to sec restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 794 pages
...wonder the cautious Pennsylvanian did not erase. It is the word of threat italicized in this passage : " We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, nor induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious... | |
 | Committee on National Centennial Commemoration - 1876 - 110 pages
...said : " 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...us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." This address was penned by Thomas Jefferson, and was read amid thundering huzzas in every market-place,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...time, to their " friends and fellow subjects in every part of the empire," " \Ve assure them that ive mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to be restored.'.' The declaration on the 6th of July, 1775, was a declaration of war, but not of independence.... | |
 | James Parton - 1878 - 792 pages
...we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, nor induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitions designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent States." These words... | |
 | Robert Templeman Craighill - Virginia - 1880 - 370 pages
...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 mean not...raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from 356 The Virginia, Peerage. Great Britain, and establishing independent states. We fight not for glory... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1880 - 556 pages
...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 mean not...wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us to that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1882 - 1040 pages
...live slaves " — could also say, at the same time, to their " friends and fellow subjects in every part of the empire," " We assure them that we mean...subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to be restored." The declaration on the 6th of July, 1775, was a declaration of war, but not of independence.... | |
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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... 
