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... colonel Byrd should be put to death , in revenge for the loss of their countrymen . Among them was a chief called Silouce , who on some former occasion , had con- tracted an acquaintance and friendship with colonel Byrd . He came to him ...
... colonel Byrd should be put to death , in revenge for the loss of their countrymen . Among them was a chief called Silouce , who on some former occasion , had con- tracted an acquaintance and friendship with colonel Byrd . He came to him ...
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... Colonel Cresap , the last " spring , in cold blood , and unprovoked , murdered all the relations of Logan , not even sparing my women " and children . There runs , not a drop of my blood in " the veins of any living creature . This ...
... Colonel Cresap , the last " spring , in cold blood , and unprovoked , murdered all the relations of Logan , not even sparing my women " and children . There runs , not a drop of my blood in " the veins of any living creature . This ...
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... colonel of the cadets . A similar in- stance happened of a provincial colonel having accepted a seat in the new council , upon which twenty four officers resigned their commissions in one day . In the mean time a meeting was held of the ...
... colonel of the cadets . A similar in- stance happened of a provincial colonel having accepted a seat in the new council , upon which twenty four officers resigned their commissions in one day . In the mean time a meeting was held of the ...
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... colonel Smith and ma- jor Pitcairn , to destroy the stores ; and , as was reported , to seize Hancock and Adams , two leading men of the congress . They set out before day break , on the nineteenth of April , marching with the utmost ...
... colonel Smith and ma- jor Pitcairn , to destroy the stores ; and , as was reported , to seize Hancock and Adams , two leading men of the congress . They set out before day break , on the nineteenth of April , marching with the utmost ...
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... colonel Maclean proposed to raise a regiment of the Highlanders , who had emigrated from their own country to America , But while General Carleton was on his march with these new levies , he was attacked by the provincials , and ...
... colonel Maclean proposed to raise a regiment of the Highlanders , who had emigrated from their own country to America , But while General Carleton was on his march with these new levies , he was attacked by the provincials , and ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 163 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Página 23 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 154 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Página 152 - But a solicitude for your welfare which cannot end but with my life and the apprehension of danger natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection of no inconsiderable observation and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Página 156 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 162 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 158 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Página 159 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 156 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government ; but the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.