The Papers of James Madison, Purchased by Order of Congress ; Being His Correspondence and Reports of Debates During the Congress of the Confederation and His Reports of Debates in the Federal Convention ; Now Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volumen1J. & H.G. Langley, 1841 |
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... probably not be delivered up . TO EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia , July 23 , • 154 1782 Recognition of Independence by the States General - Speculations concerning the views of the English Administration ( The remain- der in cypher ...
... probably not be delivered up . TO EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia , July 23 , • 154 1782 Recognition of Independence by the States General - Speculations concerning the views of the English Administration ( The remain- der in cypher ...
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... probably be known at Richmond before this reaches you . We have yet heard nothing further of the auxiliary armament from France . However anxiously its ar- rival may be wished for , it is much to be feared we shall continue to be so ...
... probably be known at Richmond before this reaches you . We have yet heard nothing further of the auxiliary armament from France . However anxiously its ar- rival may be wished for , it is much to be feared we shall continue to be so ...
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... probably be concealed that such a motion has been made and supported , and the weight which our demands would derive from unanimity and decision must be lost .. I flatter myself , however , that Congress will see the impro- priety of ...
... probably be concealed that such a motion has been made and supported , and the weight which our demands would derive from unanimity and decision must be lost .. I flatter myself , however , that Congress will see the impro- priety of ...
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... probably choose to make Madrid rather than Versailles the seat of it . However unfavorable many of these par- ticulars may appear , it is the concurrent representa- tion of the above ministers that our disappointment of pecuniary ...
... probably choose to make Madrid rather than Versailles the seat of it . However unfavorable many of these par- ticulars may appear , it is the concurrent representa- tion of the above ministers that our disappointment of pecuniary ...
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... in drawing on her for money , excited no small astonish- ment , and probably gave an idea of our distress , which confirmed her hopes of concession on our part . 72 [ 1780 . CORRESPONDENCE . TO JOSEPH JONES Philadelphia, December 1780.
... in drawing on her for money , excited no small astonish- ment , and probably gave an idea of our distress , which confirmed her hopes of concession on our part . 72 [ 1780 . CORRESPONDENCE . TO JOSEPH JONES Philadelphia, December 1780.
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Página 21 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 376 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state...
Página 24 - ... might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us. and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off' former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Página 22 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 25 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 23 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 24 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 21 - He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly and continually for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the State remaining, in the...
Página 20 - Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies ; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to [expunge] their former systems of government.