Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of the Sgners of the Declaration of Independence; Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events in the History of the Country...G. H. Salisbury, 1850 - 614 Seiten |
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... representative to the first Congress , which met at Philadelphia , in 1774 , and was the active mem- ber of all the committees on military affairs . When the commencement of hostilities made it necessary to appoint a commander - in ...
... representative to the first Congress , which met at Philadelphia , in 1774 , and was the active mem- ber of all the committees on military affairs . When the commencement of hostilities made it necessary to appoint a commander - in ...
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... representatives ; but as it is a fact too notorious to be concealed , that Congress is rent by party ; that much business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment , at ...
... representatives ; but as it is a fact too notorious to be concealed , that Congress is rent by party ; that much business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment , at ...
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... ruins . You ought to have considered yourself as my representative , and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy , and making a voluntary offer of refreshment to them , with 6 WASHINGTON 41.
... ruins . You ought to have considered yourself as my representative , and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy , and making a voluntary offer of refreshment to them , with 6 WASHINGTON 41.
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... Representatives . Thus concluded the ceremonies of the first presidential inauguration . When Washington commenced his administration , the situation of the United States was highly critical . There were no funds in the treasury , and ...
... Representatives . Thus concluded the ceremonies of the first presidential inauguration . When Washington commenced his administration , the situation of the United States was highly critical . There were no funds in the treasury , and ...
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... of the officers of the United States . He concluded in the following words : " The situation in which I now stand , for the last time , in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States , WASHINGTON . 61.
... of the officers of the United States . He concluded in the following words : " The situation in which I now stand , for the last time , in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States , WASHINGTON . 61.
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Seite 74 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Seite 75 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Seite 31 - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Seite 50 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Seite 20 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Seite 52 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Seite 90 - Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Seite 73 - ... governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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...
Seite 97 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Seite 30 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.