The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volume 4Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1886 |
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... measure due to the constant aim to make that view the outcome of a fair and exhaustive digest of facts , upheld and propped by no inconsider- able array of documentary evidence . And while there may , perhaps , be little or nothing ...
... measure due to the constant aim to make that view the outcome of a fair and exhaustive digest of facts , upheld and propped by no inconsider- able array of documentary evidence . And while there may , perhaps , be little or nothing ...
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... measures may be thought proper and necessary by the Congress for forming foreign alliances , and a confed- eration of the colonies . " Among the safety committees in Virginia at the outset of the war , perhaps that of Orange County was ...
... measures may be thought proper and necessary by the Congress for forming foreign alliances , and a confed- eration of the colonies . " Among the safety committees in Virginia at the outset of the war , perhaps that of Orange County was ...
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... measures frus- trated by the most inconsiderable State in the Union . At a time when all the other States were submitting to the loss and incon- venience of an embargo on their exports , Delaware absolutely declined coming into the measure ...
... measures frus- trated by the most inconsiderable State in the Union . At a time when all the other States were submitting to the loss and incon- venience of an embargo on their exports , Delaware absolutely declined coming into the measure ...
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... measure ensnared by the dexterity of the British minister , and particularly disapproved of the conduct of Mr. Jay in submitting to the enemy his jealousy of the French , without even the knowledge of Dr. Franklin , and of the unguarded ...
... measure ensnared by the dexterity of the British minister , and particularly disapproved of the conduct of Mr. Jay in submitting to the enemy his jealousy of the French , without even the knowledge of Dr. Franklin , and of the unguarded ...
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... measures looking to the payment of debts con- tracted during the war , and his eloquence met little resistance . At all events the Legislature took strong grounds in support of the measures of the Congress , and in loyalty to the Union ...
... measures looking to the payment of debts con- tracted during the war , and his eloquence met little resistance . At all events the Legislature took strong grounds in support of the measures of the Congress , and in loyalty to the Union ...
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Page 399 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 399 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 267 - That war be, and the same is hereby, declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and their territories...
Page 21 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 90 - Resd. therefore that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the Quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 399 - Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 30 - General Congress, be instructed to propose to that respectable body, TO DECLARE THE UNITED COLONIES FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, absolved from all allegiance to or dependence upon the crown or Parliament of Great Britain...
Page 254 - Instead of this reasonable step towards satisfaction and friendship between the two nations, the orders were, at a moment when least to have been expected, put into more rigorous execution; and it was communicated through the British envoy just arrived, that whilst the revocation of the edicts of France, as officially made known to the British government, was denied to have taken place, it was an indispensable condition of the repeal of the British Orders, that commerce should be restored to a footing...
Page 91 - Magistracy, existing at the time of increase or diminution, and to be ineligible a second time; and that besides a general authority to execute the National Laws, it ought to enjoy the Executive rights vested in Congress by the Confederation.
Page 239 - An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...