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... March , 1766 , the Stamp Act was repealed amid rejoicings which Burke declared un- precedented in the British Empire . The colonists voted statues to Pitt and King George . But no offer was made to raise the imperial funds ; and ...
... March , 1766 , the Stamp Act was repealed amid rejoicings which Burke declared un- precedented in the British Empire . The colonists voted statues to Pitt and King George . But no offer was made to raise the imperial funds ; and ...
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... ( March , 1770 ) five men were killed . The funeral of these victims of the " Boston Massacre " was made the occa- sion for a popular demonstration engineered by Samuel Adams ; and each anniversary of the affray was celebrated in Boston ...
... ( March , 1770 ) five men were killed . The funeral of these victims of the " Boston Massacre " was made the occa- sion for a popular demonstration engineered by Samuel Adams ; and each anniversary of the affray was celebrated in Boston ...
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... march so that his advance columns entered Trenton just as Washington had got his last boatload of troops across the Delaware to the Pennsylvania side . At any moment of the five months ( January to May , 1777 ) during which Washington's ...
... march so that his advance columns entered Trenton just as Washington had got his last boatload of troops across the Delaware to the Pennsylvania side . At any moment of the five months ( January to May , 1777 ) during which Washington's ...
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... March , 1776-1778 Washington's March , 1776-1778 * Sullivan's March , 1778 xxxx Burgoyne's March , 1777 St.Leger's March , 1777 N E Susq 80 ° Longitude 78 West from Saratoga Oriskany Mohawk R. Albany CATSK hanna MTS MASS . Easton ...
... March , 1776-1778 Washington's March , 1776-1778 * Sullivan's March , 1778 xxxx Burgoyne's March , 1777 St.Leger's March , 1777 N E Susq 80 ° Longitude 78 West from Saratoga Oriskany Mohawk R. Albany CATSK hanna MTS MASS . Easton ...
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... March , 1777 , for his sterile victory on Long Island the year before . Judge Jones , the Tory historian of New York , with bitter sarcasm , called the decoration " the reward for evacuating Boston , for lying indolent upon Staten ...
... March , 1777 , for his sterile victory on Long Island the year before . Judge Jones , the Tory historian of New York , with bitter sarcasm , called the decoration " the reward for evacuating Boston , for lying indolent upon Staten ...
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Page 114 - Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward:" provided also that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States.
Page 137 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 326 - ... is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power; submitting to injuries from none.
Page 364 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 324 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Page 509 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 181 - I will never send another Minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 509 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 610 - I am not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women ; but I must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Page 617 - Mexico, and that they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical Government erected on the ruins of any republican Government in America under the auspices of any European power.