Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, & Proceedings, with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things, and Other Fugitive Or Neglected Pieces, Belonging to the Men of the Revolutionary Period in the United States ...Printed and pub. for the editor, by W.O. Niles, 1822 - 495 páginas |
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... cause for trial , that their brave spirit still exists in vigor , though their legacy of right is much impaired . The sympathy and active friendship of respects , hastily penned , and reduces the soldier to some neighboring towns , upon ...
... cause for trial , that their brave spirit still exists in vigor , though their legacy of right is much impaired . The sympathy and active friendship of respects , hastily penned , and reduces the soldier to some neighboring towns , upon ...
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... cause of li- berty is a cause of too much dignity to be sullied by turbulence and tumult . - Anger produces anger ; and differences , that might be accommodated by kind and respectful behavior , may , by imprudence , be enlarged to an ...
... cause of li- berty is a cause of too much dignity to be sullied by turbulence and tumult . - Anger produces anger ; and differences , that might be accommodated by kind and respectful behavior , may , by imprudence , be enlarged to an ...
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... Cause . Thoroughly persuaded of this , I need not add a word to engage your compassion and bounty towards a fellow citizen , who , with long protracted anguish , falls a victim to the relentless rage of our common enemies ...
... Cause . Thoroughly persuaded of this , I need not add a word to engage your compassion and bounty towards a fellow citizen , who , with long protracted anguish , falls a victim to the relentless rage of our common enemies ...
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... cause ; let it therefore be our only contest , who shall most contribute to the se- curity of the liberties of America . And may the same kind Providence which has watched over this country from her infant state , still enable us to de ...
... cause ; let it therefore be our only contest , who shall most contribute to the se- curity of the liberties of America . And may the same kind Providence which has watched over this country from her infant state , still enable us to de ...
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... cause , who generously have sacrificed wealth Even the sending troops to put these acts in and ease who have despised the pomp and shew execution , is not without advantages to us . The of tinseled greatness - refused the summons to the ...
... cause , who generously have sacrificed wealth Even the sending troops to put these acts in and ease who have despised the pomp and shew execution , is not without advantages to us . The of tinseled greatness - refused the summons to the ...
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Página 354 - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
Página 304 - And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.
Página 353 - I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which however was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of Heaven. The successful termination of the war has verified the most sanguine expectations ; and my gratitude for the interposition of Providence, and the assistance I have received from my countrymen, increases with every review of the momentous contest.
Página 304 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Página 107 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union : But no other colony shall be admitted into the. same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Página 354 - ... in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seems to presage.
Página 353 - ... voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
Página 304 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Página 304 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending: if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir,...
Página 122 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.