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... question - republicans and fed - TER to the purposes mentioned above ; under a eralists . The editor does not intend to interfere in hope that the facts therein to be collected may be- the petty disputes between the ins and outs ; for ...
... question - republicans and fed - TER to the purposes mentioned above ; under a eralists . The editor does not intend to interfere in hope that the facts therein to be collected may be- the petty disputes between the ins and outs ; for ...
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... question , sometimes , even when telling the truth , lead us into gross errors , by giving the official value for one part of their statement and the real for the other , or vice versa , as suits their purpose . From the nature and ...
... question , sometimes , even when telling the truth , lead us into gross errors , by giving the official value for one part of their statement and the real for the other , or vice versa , as suits their purpose . From the nature and ...
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... question quantities of maize , barley and flour . A fermented is not known . liquor called pulque , is the common drink of the Statistics . According to the enumeration made people ; they are said to consume 41 millions of for the ...
... question quantities of maize , barley and flour . A fermented is not known . liquor called pulque , is the common drink of the Statistics . According to the enumeration made people ; they are said to consume 41 millions of for the ...
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... question , U. S. FRIGATE PRESIDENT , Off Sandy Hook , May 23 , 1811. , of course considered myself entitled , by the com- Sir - I regret extremely being under the necessi mon rules of politeness , to the first answer ; after a ty of ...
... question , U. S. FRIGATE PRESIDENT , Off Sandy Hook , May 23 , 1811. , of course considered myself entitled , by the com- Sir - I regret extremely being under the necessi mon rules of politeness , to the first answer ; after a ty of ...
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... question repeated back from Little seconds . Heard second hail , and was looking at Belt ; then third hail and gun . Was looking at the the Little Belt when the first gun was fired by her , Belt when she fired , when no gun or ...
... question repeated back from Little seconds . Heard second hail , and was looking at Belt ; then third hail and gun . Was looking at the the Little Belt when the first gun was fired by her , Belt when she fired , when no gun or ...
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Page 13 - An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, &c. by imposing Taxes on the Inhabitants of these Colonies, and the said Act, and several other Acts, by extending the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Admiralty beyond its ancient Limits, have a manifest Tendency to subvert the Rights and Liberties of the Colonists.
Page 161 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 93 - ... of success in any mode of contest where regard should be had to truth, law, or right, have at length, deserting those, attempted to effect their cruel and impolitic purpose of enslaving these colonies by violence, and have thereby rendered it necessary for us to close with their last appeal from reason to arms. Yet, however blinded that assembly may be, by their intemperate rage for unlimited domination, so to slight justice and the opinion of mankind, we esteem ourselves bound by obligations...
Page 9 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels, in the form of kings, to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Page 93 - ... however severe and oppressive, the inhabitants of these colonies might at least require from the Parliament of Great Britain some evidence that this dreadful authority over them has been granted to that body.
Page 14 - That the foundation of English Liberty, and of all free Government, is a right in the people to participate in their Legislative Council...
Page 14 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS.
Page 105 - ... after which the number and proportion of representatives shall be regulated by the legislature ; provided that no person be eligible or qualified to act as a representative unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three years and be a resident in the district, or unless he shall have resided in the district three years, and in either case shall likewise hold in his own right, in fee simple, two hundred acres of land within the same.
Page 316 - Like a vast estate, heaped up by the labor and industry of one man, which seldom survives the third generation, power, gained by patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated with their own greatness, the Federal party fell. Will not the same causes produce the same effects now, as then? Sir, you may raise this army, you may build up this vast structure of patronage, this mighty apparatus of favoritism; but "lay not the...
Page 193 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...