History of the American Revolution: With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies with Great BritainN. Hickman, 1843 - 372 páginas |
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... success , in the repeal of the stamp act . Accompanying the resolutions , so hostile to the colony of Massachusetts for her zeal in the cause of America , and so subversive of the liberties of all Americans , by making them subject to ...
... success , in the repeal of the stamp act . Accompanying the resolutions , so hostile to the colony of Massachusetts for her zeal in the cause of America , and so subversive of the liberties of all Americans , by making them subject to ...
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... success , and highly instrumental in producing the revolution . Occasions were not wanting for calling these committees into immediate duty . The first subject after the organization was a contested question between the assembly of ...
... success , and highly instrumental in producing the revolution . Occasions were not wanting for calling these committees into immediate duty . The first subject after the organization was a contested question between the assembly of ...
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... successful . Powder began to fail in the redoubt , and the cannon from the fleet had taken a position which raked it through and through . Under the fire from ships , batteries , and field artillery , and attacked by a superior force on ...
... successful . Powder began to fail in the redoubt , and the cannon from the fleet had taken a position which raked it through and through . Under the fire from ships , batteries , and field artillery , and attacked by a superior force on ...
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... success than the enthusiasm which brought them together . The task of bringing them into the forms of discipline was one of great difficulty , and occupied the whole time and anxious attention of the commander - in - chief . Their zeal ...
... success than the enthusiasm which brought them together . The task of bringing them into the forms of discipline was one of great difficulty , and occupied the whole time and anxious attention of the commander - in - chief . Their zeal ...
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... success , even to the coast of Africa . Privateers were commissioned , and Cap- tain Manly , the first naval officer created by Congress , in the privateer Lee , captured a British ordnance ship , laden with military stores , singularly ...
... success , even to the coast of Africa . Privateers were commissioned , and Cap- tain Manly , the first naval officer created by Congress , in the privateer Lee , captured a British ordnance ship , laden with military stores , singularly ...
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Página 26 - But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual ; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Página 29 - OBSERVE good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin, this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 29 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it. Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Página 10 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Página 17 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Página 8 - United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows : 2. Each State shall appoint...
Página 9 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Página 24 - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management...
Página 7 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Página 33 - In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course, which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations.