Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, & Proceedings, with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things, and Other Fugitive Or Neglected Pieces, Belonging to the Men of the Revolutionary Period in the United States ...Printed and pub. for the editor, by W.O. Niles, 1822 - 495 ページ |
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... things several gentlemen have liberally contributed articles which they would not have parted with except on an occasion like this ; and others have promised us liberty to overhaul their neglected stores of old papers : but much useful ...
... things several gentlemen have liberally contributed articles which they would not have parted with except on an occasion like this ; and others have promised us liberty to overhaul their neglected stores of old papers : but much useful ...
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... thing dear , even life itself , to our country , involves in it a common sympathy and tenderness for every citizen , and must ever have a particular feeling for one who suffers in a public Cause . Thoroughly persuaded of this , I need ...
... thing dear , even life itself , to our country , involves in it a common sympathy and tenderness for every citizen , and must ever have a particular feeling for one who suffers in a public Cause . Thoroughly persuaded of this , I need ...
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... thing which they them . extended , and her wealth increased ; her lands raised selves have not a right to give or grant personally . to an immense value ; her fleets riding triumphant Therefore it follows , that if the members chosen on ...
... thing which they them . extended , and her wealth increased ; her lands raised selves have not a right to give or grant personally . to an immense value ; her fleets riding triumphant Therefore it follows , that if the members chosen on ...
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... thing to animate and encourage them blessings to millions upon millions of our posterity . in the present contest . Formidable as was once Let us then arouse to arms ; for , upon our exer- the power of the British lion , be hath now ...
... thing to animate and encourage them blessings to millions upon millions of our posterity . in the present contest . Formidable as was once Let us then arouse to arms ; for , upon our exer- the power of the British lion , be hath now ...
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... thing base and now no more ! witness , O Boston ! for ye were too infamous . well acquainted with the melancholy truth ! We have thus far produced instances of the fatal We will now confirm the sentiment by a brief effec s of armies ...
... thing base and now no more ! witness , O Boston ! for ye were too infamous . well acquainted with the melancholy truth ! We have thus far produced instances of the fatal We will now confirm the sentiment by a brief effec s of armies ...
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354 ページ - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
304 ページ - And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
353 ページ - I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which however was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of Heaven. The successful termination of the war has verified the most sanguine expectations ; and my gratitude for the interposition of Providence, and the assistance I have received from my countrymen, increases with every review of the momentous contest.
304 ページ - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
107 ページ - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union : But no other colony shall be admitted into the. same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
354 ページ - ... in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seems to presage.
353 ページ - ... voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
304 ページ - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
304 ページ - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending: if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir,...
122 ページ - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.