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Page 284
... DEAR SIR : The receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo , and of a former by the Marquis De la Fayette , I have the honor to acknowl- edge , and to return you my thanks for them . The contents of that of the 29th are very important ...
... DEAR SIR : The receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo , and of a former by the Marquis De la Fayette , I have the honor to acknowl- edge , and to return you my thanks for them . The contents of that of the 29th are very important ...
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... DEAR SIR : I received with much pleasure the kind congratulations contained in your letter of the 25th ult . from Philadelphia , on the honorable termination of the war . No man , indeed , can relish the approaching peace with more ...
... DEAR SIR : I received with much pleasure the kind congratulations contained in your letter of the 25th ult . from Philadelphia , on the honorable termination of the war . No man , indeed , can relish the approaching peace with more ...
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... DEAR SIR : I thank you very sincerely for your kind congratula- tions on the close of the war , and the glorious peace which is held out to us , but not yet made definitive . I return them with great cordiality and heartfelt pleasure ...
... DEAR SIR : I thank you very sincerely for your kind congratula- tions on the close of the war , and the glorious peace which is held out to us , but not yet made definitive . I return them with great cordiality and heartfelt pleasure ...
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... DEAR SIR : I received your favor of April 22d , and am not a little concerned at the alteration which took place in the report on the impost , etc. , after I left you . The article which bound the whole together was , I fear , essential ...
... DEAR SIR : I received your favor of April 22d , and am not a little concerned at the alteration which took place in the report on the impost , etc. , after I left you . The article which bound the whole together was , I fear , essential ...
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... DEAR SIR : Your favor of the 19th of June came to my hands on Sunday last by the southern mail . From this circumstance and the date of it , I conclude it has been to Philadelphia , a mistake not very unusual for the postmaster at ...
... DEAR SIR : Your favor of the 19th of June came to my hands on Sunday last by the southern mail . From this circumstance and the date of it , I conclude it has been to Philadelphia , a mistake not very unusual for the postmaster at ...
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Page 221 - They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church. And we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free.
Page 201 - I have done nothing in the late Contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the Duty which I owed to my People. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the Separation, but the Separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power.
Page 216 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief...
Page 140 - And although the general has so frequently given it as his opinion in the most public and explicit manner that, unless the principles of the federal government were properly supported, and the powers of the Union increased, the honor, dignity and justice of the nation would be lost forever...
Page 287 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person...
Page 268 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 464 - I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
Page 142 - 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.
Page 271 - And whereas, the same noble and extended policy, and the same fraternal and affectionate sentiments, which originally determined the citizens of this commonwealth to unite with their brethren of the other states, in establishing a federal government, cannot but be felt with equal force, now, as motives to lay aside every inferior consideration, and to concur in such...
Page 158 - ... would have prevented this abominable crime from spreading itself over the new country. Thus we see the fate of millions unborn hanging on the tongue of one man, and heaven was silent in that awful moment ! But it is to be hoped it will not always be silent, and that the friends to the rights of human nature will in the end prevail.