Prefatory noteLangtree & O'Sullivan, 1840 - 1624 páginas |
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... wishes of his illustrious friend Thomas Jefferson , and other distinguished patriots , the important light they would shed for present as well as future usefulness , besides my desire to fulfil the pecuniary obligations imposed by his ...
... wishes of his illustrious friend Thomas Jefferson , and other distinguished patriots , the important light they would shed for present as well as future usefulness , besides my desire to fulfil the pecuniary obligations imposed by his ...
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... wish to resign . To EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia , March 18 , 1783 517 Observations on the preliminary articles -- Despatches from Gen- eral Washington - Discontents of the Army - Foreign Affairs . TO EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia ...
... wish to resign . To EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia , March 18 , 1783 517 Observations on the preliminary articles -- Despatches from Gen- eral Washington - Discontents of the Army - Foreign Affairs . TO EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia ...
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... wishes . was . It is to be observed that the situation of Congress has undergone a total change from what it originally Whilst they exercised the indefinite power of emitting money on the credit of their constituents , they had the ...
... wishes . was . It is to be observed that the situation of Congress has undergone a total change from what it originally Whilst they exercised the indefinite power of emitting money on the credit of their constituents , they had the ...
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... wish nor intention of many who voted with them , to favor the purchasing companies . Some thought such an assurance from Congress unnecessary , because their receiving the lands from the States as vacant and unappropriated , excluded ...
... wish nor intention of many who voted with them , to favor the purchasing companies . Some thought such an assurance from Congress unnecessary , because their receiving the lands from the States as vacant and unappropriated , excluded ...
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... wish and en- deavour it . Congress have just finished an estimate of supplies for the ensuing year , requiring of the States the value of six millions of dollars in specie . The principal part of the requisition consists of specific ...
... wish and en- deavour it . Congress have just finished an estimate of supplies for the ensuing year , requiring of the States the value of six millions of dollars in specie . The principal part of the requisition consists of specific ...
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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...