The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, with appendix. CorrespondenceTaylor & Maury, 1853 |
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... able to get any one to agree with me but Mr. Wythe . He concurred in it from the first dawn of the question , What was the political relation between us and England ? Our other patriots , Randolph , the Lees , Nicholas , Pen- dleton ...
... able to get any one to agree with me but Mr. Wythe . He concurred in it from the first dawn of the question , What was the political relation between us and England ? Our other patriots , Randolph , the Lees , Nicholas , Pen- dleton ...
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... able a one , that he was greatly indulged even by those who could not feel his scruples . We therefore requested him to take the paper , and put it into a form he could approve . He did so , preparing an entire new statement , and ...
... able a one , that he was greatly indulged even by those who could not feel his scruples . We therefore requested him to take the paper , and put it into a form he could approve . He did so , preparing an entire new statement , and ...
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... able to lay by , he invests in cattle , horses , & c . , whereas a Southern farmer lays out the same surplus in slaves . There is no more reason , therefore , for taxing the Southern States on the farmer's head , and on his slave's head ...
... able to lay by , he invests in cattle , horses , & c . , whereas a Southern farmer lays out the same surplus in slaves . There is no more reason , therefore , for taxing the Southern States on the farmer's head , and on his slave's head ...
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... able to pay taxes ? That the condition of the laboring poor in most coun- tries , that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern States , is as abject as that of slaves . It is the number of laborers which produces the surplus for ...
... able to pay taxes ? That the condition of the laboring poor in most coun- tries , that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern States , is as abject as that of slaves . It is the number of laborers which produces the surplus for ...
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... able to pay most , which have the most inhabitants , whether they be black or white ; and the practice of the Southern colonies has always been to make every farmer pay poll taxes upon all his laborers , whether they be black or white ...
... able to pay most , which have the most inhabitants , whether they be black or white ; and the practice of the Southern colonies has always been to make every farmer pay poll taxes upon all his laborers , whether they be black or white ...
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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 23 - CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. 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. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Página 181 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Página 27 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Página 140 - Still less let it be proposed that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth, but our own. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 20 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Página 25 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
Página 20 - Britain is a history of [unremitting] injuries and usurpations, [among which appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, but all have] in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world [for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.] He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Página 25 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these states, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the kings of Great Britain, and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted beticeen us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and finally, we do assert...
Página 22 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.