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... royal troops enter Boston . Tumult , with effu- sion of blood , in Boston . Admirable judicial decision in the midst of so great commo- tion . Condescendence of the English government ; it suppresses the taxes , with the ex- ception of ...
... royal troops enter Boston . Tumult , with effu- sion of blood , in Boston . Admirable judicial decision in the midst of so great commo- tion . Condescendence of the English government ; it suppresses the taxes , with the ex- ception of ...
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... royal governors oppose the designs of the popular governors . Serious altercations which result from it . Massachusetts begins to labor for independ- ence . The other provinces discover repugnance to imitate the example . Military ope ...
... royal governors oppose the designs of the popular governors . Serious altercations which result from it . Massachusetts begins to labor for independ- ence . The other provinces discover repugnance to imitate the example . Military ope ...
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... royal authority , whereby their laws were constituted upon the model of those of England , and more or less conformed to a free government , or to a more absolute system , according to the charac- ter or authority of the prince from ...
... royal authority , whereby their laws were constituted upon the model of those of England , and more or less conformed to a free government , or to a more absolute system , according to the charac- ter or authority of the prince from ...
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... royal coffers ; and that by the industry and productions of England , who sells them an immense quantity of her manufactures . The more they extend their foreign commerce , the more will they consume of our mer- chandise . This is a ...
... royal coffers ; and that by the industry and productions of England , who sells them an immense quantity of her manufactures . The more they extend their foreign commerce , the more will they consume of our mer- chandise . This is a ...
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... royal charters on the occasion , it was done through mere necessity ; and , as this necessity was not of their own making , their charters cannot be binding upon them ; and even allowing these charters to be binding , they are only ...
... royal charters on the occasion , it was done through mere necessity ; and , as this necessity was not of their own making , their charters cannot be binding upon them ; and even allowing these charters to be binding , they are only ...
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Página 49 - I claim to know more of America than most of you, having seen and been conversant in that country. The people, I believe, are as truly loyal as any subjects the king has ; but a people jealous of their liberties, and who will vindicate them, if ever they should be violated. But the subject is too delicate ; I will say no more.
Página 87 - 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 48 - 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 213 - 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 135 - ... 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 87 - 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.
Página 86 - The commons of America, represented in their several assemblies, have ever been in possession of the exercise of this, their constitutional right, of giving and granting their own money. They would have been slaves if they had not enjoyed it.
Página 212 - 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 53 - America; and whereas it is just and necessary that provision be made for raising a further revenue within your Majesty's dominions in America...
Página 48 - They nourished by your indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule...