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... seconded by Mr. WILLIAMSON , to instruct the Committee to report the best mode of liquidating the domestic debts , and of obtaining a valuation of the land within the seve- ral States , as the Article of Confederation directs . The ...
... seconded by Mr. WILLIAMSON , to instruct the Committee to report the best mode of liquidating the domestic debts , and of obtaining a valuation of the land within the seve- ral States , as the Article of Confederation directs . The ...
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... Seconded by Mr. ARNOLD , recommending to the several States to settle with and satisfy , at the charge of the United States , all such temporary corps as had been raised by them respectively , with the approbation of Con- gress . The ...
... Seconded by Mr. ARNOLD , recommending to the several States to settle with and satisfy , at the charge of the United States , all such temporary corps as had been raised by them respectively , with the approbation of Con- gress . The ...
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... Seconded by Mr. OSGOOD , that the Committee be instructed to report a proper act for the ratification of the mea- sure . In support of this motion it was alleged , that whenever a public minister entered into engagements without ...
... Seconded by Mr. OSGOOD , that the Committee be instructed to report a proper act for the ratification of the mea- sure . In support of this motion it was alleged , that whenever a public minister entered into engagements without ...
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... seconded by Mr. RUTLEDGE , to post- pone the consideration of it ; which being lost , a motion was made by Mr. WILLIAMSON , to substitute a resolution declaring , that as the British Govern- ment had treated Mr. Laurens with so ...
... seconded by Mr. RUTLEDGE , to post- pone the consideration of it ; which being lost , a motion was made by Mr. WILLIAMSON , to substitute a resolution declaring , that as the British Govern- ment had treated Mr. Laurens with so ...
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... Seconded by Mr. RAMSAY , that the discharge should be ratified in case Mr. Laurens should undertake the office of commissioner for peace . This proposition was gen- erally considered as of a very extraordinary nature , and after a brief ...
... Seconded by Mr. RAMSAY , that the discharge should be ratified in case Mr. Laurens should undertake the office of commissioner for peace . This proposition was gen- erally considered as of a very extraordinary nature , and after a brief ...
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Página 26 - 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 23 - 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 378 - 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 23 - He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these states] 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.
Página 28 - 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. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Página 26 - And that this assemblage of horrors 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 11 - Congress should 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 connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
Página 23 - ... 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...
Página 25 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty...