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... manifested in England on this occasion . The news is transinitted with all dispatch to America . BOOK THIRD . SUMMARY . - Extreme joy of the colonists on hearing of the repeal of the stamp act . Causes of new discontents . Deliberations ...
... manifested in England on this occasion . The news is transinitted with all dispatch to America . BOOK THIRD . SUMMARY . - Extreme joy of the colonists on hearing of the repeal of the stamp act . Causes of new discontents . Deliberations ...
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... reserved and circumspect , yet expressions frequently escaped them which manifested a violent hatred for the political and religious establishments of the mother country . Whoever courted popular favor 14 BOOK 1 . THE AMERICAN WAR .
... reserved and circumspect , yet expressions frequently escaped them which manifested a violent hatred for the political and religious establishments of the mother country . Whoever courted popular favor 14 BOOK 1 . THE AMERICAN WAR .
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... manifested a lofty indignation at the ex- cesses committed by the Americans . Disputations and controversies were without number . Pamphlets were daily published , written upon different , and even opposite principles . In some , the ...
... manifested a lofty indignation at the ex- cesses committed by the Americans . Disputations and controversies were without number . Pamphlets were daily published , written upon different , and even opposite principles . In some , the ...
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... manifested to comply with , or to assist in carrying into execution , any acts of parliament , had suffered any injury or damage , ought to have full compensation made to them , by the respective colonies in which such injuries or ...
... manifested to comply with , or to assist in carrying into execution , any acts of parliament , had suffered any injury or damage , ought to have full compensation made to them , by the respective colonies in which such injuries or ...
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... manifested how imperfectly the seeds of discord were extinguished . General Gage was expected at New York with a considerable body of troops ; in consequence of which , the governor addressed a mes- sage to the assembly , requesting it ...
... manifested how imperfectly the seeds of discord were extinguished . General Gage was expected at New York with a considerable body of troops ; in consequence of which , the governor addressed a mes- sage to the assembly , requesting it ...
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Página 92 - America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 144 - ... 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: 1.
Página 228 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. With an humble confidence in the mercies of...
Página 227 - 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.
Página 359 - Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross DELAWARE Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas M'Kean MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Página 55 - Britain can the consumption of foreign superfluities) our whole wealth centers finally amongst the merchants and inhabitants of Britain ; and if we make them richer, and enable them better to pay their taxes, it is nearly the same as being taxed ourselves, and equally beneficial to the crown.
Página 49 - A member of parliament, chosen for any borough, represents not only the constituents and inhabitants of that particular place, but he represents the inhabitants of every other borough in Great Britain. He represents the city of London, and all...
Página 91 - When, therefore, in this house we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? We your majesty's commons for Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No.
Página 51 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Página 93 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.