...cradle, he has learned that this is the day that gave birth to a nation — the day when our fathers pledged "their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to the cause of human rights, and swore upon the altar of liberty, that for themselves and children they would be free....

...and animated them by their courage in the field ; — it is claimed that those men who had solemnly pledged " their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" " to the cause of Freedom and of Human Rights," did afterwards guaranty to the Southern States the unquestioned exercise...

...left- '>', hand rouin, as one enters from Chestnut street, sat that ".-.. . illustrious body of men, who, on the fourth of July, .^ -\ ". 1776, pledged...their fortunes, and their" .',;.£$ sacred honor," to support those principles of ind.e- "V.%1. pendcncc, which were embodied in the immortal " D$-*s.^"•...

...? No taxation without representation, was the idea which stimulated those noble men to pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, to the cause of American independence. So it is the truths of God's revelation telling us how the paradise lost may be regained; pointing...

...forever sacred to freedom — where the the patriots and statesmen of 1776 counseled and prayed, and pledged their "lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to the cause of freedom and of human rights — stood, and yet stands, in the city of Philadelphia. On that old State-House...

...where time can never efface' them, and where they shine like the stars on our beautiful flag, as they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause of independence, Reed, who, as he said of himself, "knew too much of their situation to be very sanguine,"...

...miserable existence under the yoke of slavery ; we owe it to the memory of our fathers who solemnly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause of liberty ; we owe it to the expectations, the claims of oppressed and suffering men the world over ;...

...miserable existence under the yoke of slavery ; we owe it to the memory of our fathers who solemnly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause of liberty ; we owe it to the expectations, the claims of oppressed and suffering men the world over ;...

...Home. MEECEESBUEQ, PA. THE SIGNERS IN RHYME. BY REV. JH DUBBS. It will not be denied, that the men, who, on the Fourth of July, 1776, pledged "their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor" in behalf of our national liberty, deserve the most profound reverence from every American citizen....

...are many names afterwards illustrious in the annals of our Revolutionary struggle; names of men who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause of human freedom throughout the world." The tide was setting in strongly against the Establishment ; public...