Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volumen7R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... taken away ; their persons subjected to transportation across the Atlantic , and to trial before foreign judicatories ; their supplications for redress thought beneath answer ; themselves published as cow- ards in the councils of their ...
... taken away ; their persons subjected to transportation across the Atlantic , and to trial before foreign judicatories ; their supplications for redress thought beneath answer ; themselves published as cow- ards in the councils of their ...
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... taken - the circumstances of the nation demanded it , the success of the struggle depended on it . The best and wisest men had become convinced , that no accommodation could take place , and that a course which was not marked by ...
... taken - the circumstances of the nation demanded it , the success of the struggle depended on it . The best and wisest men had become convinced , that no accommodation could take place , and that a course which was not marked by ...
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... taken into very full consideration ; and on the fourth , it was agreed to after several alterations and considerable omissions had been made in the draught , as it was first framed by the committee . The declaration in its original form ...
... taken into very full consideration ; and on the fourth , it was agreed to after several alterations and considerable omissions had been made in the draught , as it was first framed by the committee . The declaration in its original form ...
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... taken captives on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to be- come the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . In place of the three paragraphs erased , the two fol- lowing ...
... taken captives on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to be- come the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . In place of the three paragraphs erased , the two fol- lowing ...
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... taken time to adjourn in- formally , to meet at Staunton on the seventh , when the enemy entered the village , in the confident expectation of an easy prey . The escape was indeed narrow , but no one was taken . In pursuing the ...
... taken time to adjourn in- formally , to meet at Staunton on the seventh , when the enemy entered the village , in the confident expectation of an easy prey . The escape was indeed narrow , but no one was taken . In pursuing the ...
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Página 102 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 103 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 104 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Página 35 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 103 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 33 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Página 309 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Página 28 - But when a long train of abuses and usurpations [begun at a distinguished period and] pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Página 306 - Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various pretences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies...