Journals of the American Congress: from 1774-1788: In Four Volumes, Том 1Way and Gideon, 1823 |
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... supply his place , as president . An address from Christopher Tully was read , and ordered to lie on the table . Ordered , That the Journal of the proceedings of the Congress , as corrected , be sent to the press , and printed under the ...
... supply his place , as president . An address from Christopher Tully was read , and ordered to lie on the table . Ordered , That the Journal of the proceedings of the Congress , as corrected , be sent to the press , and printed under the ...
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... supply , and we utterly unable at present to procure materials or manufactures for clothing among ourselves , we must , by such a resolution , become extremely miserable ; it was therefore con- cluded , that till we could obtain trade ...
... supply , and we utterly unable at present to procure materials or manufactures for clothing among ourselves , we must , by such a resolution , become extremely miserable ; it was therefore con- cluded , that till we could obtain trade ...
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... supplies . This letter being taken into consi- deration , Resolved , That the governor of Connecticut be requested ... supply these colo- nies with ammunition and military stores , brought in their report , which was read , and ...
... supplies . This letter being taken into consi- deration , Resolved , That the governor of Connecticut be requested ... supply these colo- nies with ammunition and military stores , brought in their report , which was read , and ...
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... supply your- selves , with the necessaries of life : While the present unhappy struggle shall continue , we cannot do more . But why should we make any apology to the patriotic assembly of Jamaica , who know so well the value of liberty ...
... supply your- selves , with the necessaries of life : While the present unhappy struggle shall continue , we cannot do more . But why should we make any apology to the patriotic assembly of Jamaica , who know so well the value of liberty ...
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... the honor they had been pleased to confer on him , and desiring that some per- soa , more fit and able , might supply his place . VOL . I. 18 Resolved unanimously , That the thanks of this convention are JOURNALS OF CONGRESS , 1775 . 137.
... the honor they had been pleased to confer on him , and desiring that some per- soa , more fit and able , might supply his place . VOL . I. 18 Resolved unanimously , That the thanks of this convention are JOURNALS OF CONGRESS , 1775 . 137.
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Страница 30 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment, that a British parliament should ever consent to establish in that country, a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Страница 20 - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Страница 84 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Страница 84 - As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire...
Страница 139 - Colony, for contributing their Proportion to the common Defence, (such Proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court, or General Assembly of such Province or Colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make Provision also, for the support of the Civil Government, and the Administration of Justice...
Страница 43 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Страница 20 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Страница 407 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Страница 85 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Страница 21 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.