Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, & Proceedings, with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things, and Other Fugitive Or Neglected Pieces, Belonging to the Men of the Revolutionary Period in the United States ... |
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... our free constitution ; numberless the grievances ve now resent : but the Hydra
mischief , is the Americans justly and decently urged an exclusive violation of my
right , as a BRITISH AMENIcax free . right of taxing themselves ; was it indulgent ...
... our free constitution ; numberless the grievances ve now resent : but the Hydra
mischief , is the Americans justly and decently urged an exclusive violation of my
right , as a BRITISH AMENIcax free . right of taxing themselves ; was it indulgent ...
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... enemy , but to assist a band of Traitons they know was well intended , though
its want of in trampling on the rights and liberties of his most merit , should
prevent their being able to applaud loyal subjects ja America — those rights and
liberit .
... enemy , but to assist a band of Traitons they know was well intended , though
its want of in trampling on the rights and liberties of his most merit , should
prevent their being able to applaud loyal subjects ja America — those rights and
liberit .
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youth forget they were Americans , and regardless from ruin , even a guilty villian
, forever actuate the of the admonitions of the wise and aged , servilely noble
bosoms of Americans ! But let not the mis . copy from their tyrants those vices
which ...
youth forget they were Americans , and regardless from ruin , even a guilty villian
, forever actuate the of the admonitions of the wise and aged , servilely noble
bosoms of Americans ! But let not the mis . copy from their tyrants those vices
which ...
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The people curity of the liberties of America . And may the soon were aware of
the poison which , with so much same kind Providence which bas watched over
this craft and subtility , had been concealed : loss and country from her infant
state ...
The people curity of the liberties of America . And may the soon were aware of
the poison which , with so much same kind Providence which bas watched over
this craft and subtility , had been concealed : loss and country from her infant
state ...
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... lest , whilst your streaming eyes whilst Britain and America rejoiced in the
prospe . are fixed upon the ghastly corpse , your feet slide rity and greatness of
ench other ( heaven grant those on the stones bespaltered with your father's
brains .
... lest , whilst your streaming eyes whilst Britain and America rejoiced in the
prospe . are fixed upon the ghastly corpse , your feet slide rity and greatness of
ench other ( heaven grant those on the stones bespaltered with your father's
brains .
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Page 311 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 84 - That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws; and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 389 - The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts : and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 310 - And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Page 360 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
Page 310 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending...
Page 107 - No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the united states in congress assembled can be consulted...
Page 310 - These are the implements of war and subjugation, the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Page 244 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Page 360 - States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency ; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted...
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| Title | Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, & Proceedings, with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things, and Other Fugitive Or Neglected Pieces, Belonging to the Men of the Revolutionary Period in the United States ... |
| Author | Hezekiah Niles |
| Publisher | Printed and pub. for the editor, by W.O. Niles, 1822 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 495 pages |
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