Formation of the Union, 1750-1829Longmans, 1892 - 278 Seiten |
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... attacked by England's enemies . On the other hand , the colonies had asked for no troops , and desired none . They were satisfied with their own halting and inefficient means of defence ; they no longer had French enemies in Canada ...
... attacked by England's enemies . On the other hand , the colonies had asked for no troops , and desired none . They were satisfied with their own halting and inefficient means of defence ; they no longer had French enemies in Canada ...
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... attacked , and he next day resigned his office . Hutchinson was acting governor of the col- ony : his mansion was sacked ; and the manuscript of his History of Massachusetts , still preserved , carries on its edges the mud of the Boston ...
... attacked , and he next day resigned his office . Hutchinson was acting governor of the col- ony : his mansion was sacked ; and the manuscript of his History of Massachusetts , still preserved , carries on its edges the mud of the Boston ...
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... attacked colonial ideas by sap ; the Townshend scheme was attacking them by storm every day . " 28. Colonial Protests and Repeal ( 1767-1770 ) . Colonial protests . This time the colonies avoided the error of disorderly or riotous ...
... attacked colonial ideas by sap ; the Townshend scheme was attacking them by storm every day . " 28. Colonial Protests and Repeal ( 1767-1770 ) . Colonial protests . This time the colonies avoided the error of disorderly or riotous ...
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... attacked and obliged to retire , and finally returned to Boston with a loss of three hundred men . The war had begun . Its issue depended upon the moral and military support which Massachusetts might receive from the other colonies ...
... attacked and obliged to retire , and finally returned to Boston with a loss of three hundred men . The war had begun . Its issue depended upon the moral and military support which Massachusetts might receive from the other colonies ...
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... attacked and defeated the besieging forces at Bunker Hill . Neither the country nor Congress could long stand still . Precisely a week after assembling , Congress voted that certain commerce " must immediately cease . ' National ...
... attacked and defeated the besieging forces at Bunker Hill . Neither the country nor Congress could long stand still . Precisely a week after assembling , Congress voted that certain commerce " must immediately cease . ' National ...
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Seite 233 - Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are constitutional.
Seite 184 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Seite 176 - ... militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public...
Seite 215 - States, which have no common umpire, must be their own judges, and execute their own decisions.
Seite 206 - If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation ; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably, if they can, violently, if they must.
Seite 165 - 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.
Seite 79 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies...
Seite 86 - ... the king and parliament of Great Britain will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North America or the West Indies ; except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce...
Seite 128 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Seite 242 - ... we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.