Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Band 7R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... arms . " On the first of January , 1772 , Mr. Jefferson married the daughter of Mr. Wayles , an eminent lawyer of Vir- ginia ; an alliance by which he at once gained an acces- sion of strength and credit ; and secured in the intervals ...
... arms . " On the first of January , 1772 , Mr. Jefferson married the daughter of Mr. Wayles , an eminent lawyer of Vir- ginia ; an alliance by which he at once gained an acces- sion of strength and credit ; and secured in the intervals ...
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... arms ; a task , which , like all the other addresses of this congress , was executed with singular ability , and in which it is more than probable , the Virginia delegate took no in- considerable part . In July , the resolution of the ...
... arms ; a task , which , like all the other addresses of this congress , was executed with singular ability , and in which it is more than probable , the Virginia delegate took no in- considerable part . In July , the resolution of the ...
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... arms was an event , not beyond the con- templation of the British ministry ; nearly a year had elapsed , since the fields of Concord and Lexington had been stained with hostile blood ; during this interval armies had been raised ...
... arms was an event , not beyond the con- templation of the British ministry ; nearly a year had elapsed , since the fields of Concord and Lexington had been stained with hostile blood ; during this interval armies had been raised ...
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... arms . declaration of indignant suffering ; the result of injury protracted beyond endurance ; the just appeal to the only remedy that was left , after every milder method had been tried in vain . To frame such a document , was the ...
... arms . declaration of indignant suffering ; the result of injury protracted beyond endurance ; the just appeal to the only remedy that was left , after every milder method had been tried in vain . To frame such a document , was the ...
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... arms against their country , to be- come the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . In place of the three paragraphs erased , the two fol- lowing were introduced : [ He has constrained our ...
... arms against their country , to be- come the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . In place of the three paragraphs erased , the two fol- lowing were introduced : [ He has constrained our ...
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Seite 102 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Seite 103 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Seite 104 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Seite 35 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 103 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Seite 33 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Seite 309 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Seite 28 - But when a long train of abuses and usurpations [begun at a distinguished period and] pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Seite 306 - Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various pretences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies...