The Life of Timothy Pickering, Том 1Little, Brown,, 1867 - 522 страници |
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Adjutant-General agreeable appointed April arms army arrived August Board Boston Bound Brook British troops camp Captain Colonel Flower Colonel Hay Colonel Pickering Colonel Pickering's command committee companies conduct county of Essex Court detachment dollars duty enemy enemy's Essex Gazette expect fatigue favor February fire following letter forage Fort Independence Fort Mifflin friends gentlemen Governor happy head-quarters Heath honor hope hundred informed inhabitants January Jersey John Pickering Journals of Congress Kingsbridge Lincoln Marblehead Massachusetts Medford ment mentioned miles military militia morning Morristown Newburgh night North Castle o'clock obliged opinion Paine Wingate Peekskill persons Philadelphia Plan of Discipline present Quartermaster-General quarters received reënforced Register of Deeds retired returned River says Schuylkill sentiments September soldiers soon Sparks's Writings Sullivan Tarrytown Thacher's regiment thousand TIMOTHY PICKERING tion told town of Salem whole wish wounded Writings of Washington wrote yesterday
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Страница 520 - An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing.
Страница 51 - By shutting up the port of Boston, some imagine that the course of trade might be turned hither and to our benefit ; but we must be dead to every idea of justice, lost to all feelings of humanity, could we indulge a thought to seize on wealth, and raise our fortunes on the ruin of our suffering neighbors.
Страница 546 - Ammunition to be supplied in the same way. "11. That a constitution for the new State be formed by the members of the association previous to their commencing the settlement, two thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose agreeing therein. The total exclusion of slavery from the State to form an essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution.
Страница 530 - The legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide, by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis.
Страница 440 - On motion, resolved unanimously, that the officers of the American army view with abhorrence and reject with disdain, the infamous propositions contained in a late anonymous address to the officers of the army...
Страница 508 - To suffer the continuance of slaves till they can gradually be emancipated, in states already overrun with them may be pardonable, because unavoidable without hazarding greater evils ; but to introduce them into countries where none now exist...
Страница 419 - Resolved unanimously, that the army continue to have an unshaken confidence in the justice of Congress and their country, and are fully convinced that the representatives of America will not disband or disperse the army until their accounts are liquidated* the balances accurately ascertained, and adequate funds established for payment; and in this arrangement, the officers expect that the half pay, or a commutation for it, should be efficaciously comprehended.
Страница 250 - But however willing I might have been heretofore to subject myself to the fatigue and difficulties attending the duties of this office, justice to myself as well as to the public constrains me positively to decline it under the present arrangement, as I do not choose to attempt an experiment of so dangerous a nature, where I see a physical impossibility of performing the duties that will be required of me. Wherefore I request that Congress will appoint another...
Страница 539 - Americans will fight for their liberties and property, however pusillanimous in his Lordship's eye they may appear in other respects. From the best accounts I have been able to collect of that affair, indeed from every one, I believe the fact, stripped of all coloring, to be plainly this, that, if the retreat...
Страница 539 - If the retreat," writes Washington, "had not been as precipitate as it was, — and God knows it could not well have been more so, — the ministerial troops must have surrendered, or been totally cut off.