Elements of Useful Knowledge: Volume II : Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of Schools, Band 2Hudson and Goodwin, 1813 - 224 Seiten |
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... Long - Island , and such other preparations made to resist the enemy , as exigencies would permit . Before the commencement of hostilities , lord Howe , the British admiral , sent a letter to general Washing- ton , to offer terms of ...
... Long - Island , and such other preparations made to resist the enemy , as exigencies would permit . Before the commencement of hostilities , lord Howe , the British admiral , sent a letter to general Washing- ton , to offer terms of ...
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... Long - Island . General Howe , the commander of the land forces , notwithstanding the fate of his brother's letter , sent his adjutant general Patterson , with a let- ter directed to George Washington , & e & c . & c . This indignity ...
... Long - Island . General Howe , the commander of the land forces , notwithstanding the fate of his brother's letter , sent his adjutant general Patterson , with a let- ter directed to George Washington , & e & c . & c . This indignity ...
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... Long Island . Lord Howe , under an impression that the defeat ou Long - Island would induce congress to comply with his terms , dismissed general Sullivan on his parole , with a message to congress , requesting a conference with some of ...
... Long Island . Lord Howe , under an impression that the defeat ou Long - Island would induce congress to comply with his terms , dismissed general Sullivan on his parole , with a message to congress , requesting a conference with some of ...
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... Long Island , destroyed the shipping and stores collected for the British at Sag - Harbor , and took ninety prisoners , without the loss of a man . In July , colonel Barton of Rhode Island , with a few volunteers , crossed the Nar ...
... Long Island , destroyed the shipping and stores collected for the British at Sag - Harbor , and took ninety prisoners , without the loss of a man . In July , colonel Barton of Rhode Island , with a few volunteers , crossed the Nar ...
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... Long - Island , and also to draw , if possible , gen- eral Washington from his position at the highlands . In this expedition , the British forces landed at West- Haven , and by a circuitous march entered New - Ha- ven , after some ...
... Long - Island , and also to draw , if possible , gen- eral Washington from his position at the highlands . In this expedition , the British forces landed at West- Haven , and by a circuitous march entered New - Ha- ven , after some ...
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Seite 209 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now...
Seite 214 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole...
Seite 213 - West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort ; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation.
Seite 209 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Seite 212 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Seite 216 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Seite 213 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Seite 213 - NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the NORTH, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted.
Seite 212 - But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...