 | James Thacher - 1827 - 502 páginas
...from them or destroyed. I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man, who had borne arms with us, and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged, and have now, Sir, only to desire that you will take the most vigorous measures to extinguish the rebellion,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 526 páginas
...injured and oppressed by them. I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every mihiti¿ maim who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 510 páginas
...injured and oppressed by them. I have ordered, iii the must positive manner, that every militia man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - 1829 - 506 páginas
...injured and oppressed by them. 1 have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 páginas
...injured and oppressed by them. I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 590 páginas
...compensation should be made out of their estates to the persons, who have been injured and oppressed by them. I have ordered in the most positive manner, that every...afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you... | |
 | Matthew Henry Barker - 1844 - 1090 páginas
...troop of cavalry in the service of the United States. This, by the decree of Cornwallis, which said, "Every militia-man who has borne arms with us, and...afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged," consigned him to a disgraceful death. A lovely spot was the rustic cottage and grounds of Mr. Campbell... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1844 - 384 páginas
...from them or destroyed. . . . . I have ordered in the most positive / manner that every militia man, who has borne arms with us, and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged!" This gentleman has been called, by some of the American writers, the " amiable Cornwallis." It is rather... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 410 páginas
...property taken from them or destroyed I have ordered in the most positive manner that every militia man, who has borne arms with us, and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged!" This gentleman has been called, by some of the American writers, the " amiable Cornwallis." It is rather... | |
 | Horatio Newton Moore - 1845 - 456 páginas
...be imprisoned and their whole property taken from them or destroyed ;" and " that every militia man, who has borne arms with us, and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged." Many men were hanged, and the property of a number of families confiscated. The audacity and skill... | |
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I have ordered in the most positive manner that every militia-man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy shall be immediately hanged. ' ' By militiamen were meant alike officers and privates, of whatever 
