Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, Volumen1F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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... court , at which I continued until the Revolution shut up the courts of justice . * * For a sketch of the life and character of Mr. Wythe , see my letter of Au- gust 31 , 1820 , to Mr. John Saunderson . [ See Appendix , note Ă . ] In ...
... court , at which I continued until the Revolution shut up the courts of justice . * * For a sketch of the life and character of Mr. Wythe , see my letter of Au- gust 31 , 1820 , to Mr. John Saunderson . [ See Appendix , note Ă . ] In ...
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... court of enquiry held in Rhode Island in 1762 , with a power to send persons to England to be tried for offences committed here , was considered , at our session of the spring of 1773 , as demanding attention . Not thinking our old and ...
... court of enquiry held in Rhode Island in 1762 , with a power to send persons to England to be tried for offences committed here , was considered , at our session of the spring of 1773 , as demanding attention . Not thinking our old and ...
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... court , who , if they should find themselves unable otherwise to extricate themselves from their difficulties , would agree to a par- tition of our territories , restoring Canada to France , and the Flori- das to Spain , to accomplish ...
... court , who , if they should find themselves unable otherwise to extricate themselves from their difficulties , would agree to a par- tition of our territories , restoring Canada to France , and the Flori- das to Spain , to accomplish ...
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... courts of admiralty to be legitimate , in cases of capture of British vessels : That though France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it will be much more formidable with the addition of Great Britain ; and ...
... courts of admiralty to be legitimate , in cases of capture of British vessels : That though France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it will be much more formidable with the addition of Great Britain ; and ...
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... courts of justice , the organization of which was of impor- tance . I drew the bill ; it was approved by the committee , re- ported and passed , after going through its due course . On the 12th , I obtained leave to bring in a bill ...
... courts of justice , the organization of which was of impor- tance . I drew the bill ; it was approved by the committee , re- ported and passed , after going through its due course . On the 12th , I obtained leave to bring in a bill ...
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Página 15 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 13 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Página 34 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 15 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 86 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.
Página 15 - 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.
Página 403 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Página 15 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [ ] people [who mean to *
Página viii - It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life, that Dr. William Small of Scotland was then Professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind.
Página 404 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.