John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution: An Address Before the Webster Historical Society, at Its Annual Meeting in Boston, Jan. 18, 1884Society, 1884 - 85 ページ |
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... royal government and the champions of popular rights , in which parties arrayed themselves under the respective and succes- sive lead of Randolph and Danforth , Dudley and Cooke , Burnett and Wells , on issues as sharply defined ...
... royal government and the champions of popular rights , in which parties arrayed themselves under the respective and succes- sive lead of Randolph and Danforth , Dudley and Cooke , Burnett and Wells , on issues as sharply defined ...
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... royal troops had been sent , because here they were needed to maintain the royal government : and to these troops the first armed resistance in which blood was shed , was on the field of Lexington , 19 April , 1775. ' 1 On this point it ...
... royal troops had been sent , because here they were needed to maintain the royal government : and to these troops the first armed resistance in which blood was shed , was on the field of Lexington , 19 April , 1775. ' 1 On this point it ...
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... royal prerogatives ; but out of New England , the colo- nists , who were mainly of the Church of England , - certainly not Puritans , became quiet as the enforcement of these laws was relaxed or evaded . But in New England , and ...
... royal prerogatives ; but out of New England , the colo- nists , who were mainly of the Church of England , - certainly not Puritans , became quiet as the enforcement of these laws was relaxed or evaded . But in New England , and ...
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... royal com- missioners were sent over to inquire into the reports from Massachusetts Bay , " that his subjects in those parts did not submit to his government , but looked upon themselves as independent upon him and his laws ; " and with ...
... royal com- missioners were sent over to inquire into the reports from Massachusetts Bay , " that his subjects in those parts did not submit to his government , but looked upon themselves as independent upon him and his laws ; " and with ...
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... royal license . 2. That an application to the provincial legislature was a contempt of the sovereign ; and , 3. That if notice of this should find them ( the synod ) in session , the Lieutenant Governor should " signify to them ...
... royal license . 2. That an application to the provincial legislature was a contempt of the sovereign ; and , 3. That if notice of this should find them ( the synod ) in session , the Lieutenant Governor should " signify to them ...
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80 ページ - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects, in America,...
80 ページ - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is, a right in the People to participate in their legislative council...
79 ページ - To these grievous acts and measures Americans cannot submit; but in hopes their fellow subjects in Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have, for the present, only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures.
82 ページ - We are between hawk and buzzard. We ought to have had in our hands a month ago the whole legislative, executive and judicial of the whole continent...
36 ページ - If the Church of England had been the established and general religion in all the northern colonies as it has been among us here, and uninterrupted tranquility had prevailed throughout the continent, it is clear to me that slavery and subjection might and would have been gradually insinuated among us.
5 ページ - He recalled a couplet that had been inscribed or rather drilled, into a rock on the shore of Monument Bay in our old colony of Plymouth: " 'The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends.
60 ページ - Adams, I believe, has the most thorough understanding of liberty and her resources in the temper and character of the people, though not in the law and Constitution; as well as the most habitual, radical love of it of any of them, as well as the most correct, genteel, and artful pen.
41 ページ - no aid, tax, tallage, assessment, custom, loan, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied on any of their majesties' subjects, or their estates, on any color or pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people assembled in general court.
21 ページ - Rome, with indifference, who will believe that the apprehension of Episcopacy contributed fifty years ago, as much as any other cause, to arouse the attention, not only of the inquiring mind, but of the common people, and urge them to close thinking on the constitutional authority of parliament over the colonies?
25 ページ - We hope in God such an establishment will never take place in America ; and we desire you would strenuously oppose it. The revenue raised in America, for aught we can tell, may be as constitutionally applied towards the support of prelacy as of soldiers and pensioners...