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... believe , in 1776 , or if I am mistaken in the recollection of the month , certainly , very early in that year , I wrote the pamphlet in question , which Rich- ard Henry Lee procured to be printed by Dun- lap , in Philadelphia , under ...
... believe , in 1776 , or if I am mistaken in the recollection of the month , certainly , very early in that year , I wrote the pamphlet in question , which Rich- ard Henry Lee procured to be printed by Dun- lap , in Philadelphia , under ...
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... for the actors who now tread the stage . You say , the awful spirit of demo- cracy is in great progress . I believe it , and I know something of the nature of it . It is a + young rake who thinks himself handsome and well made , 18.
... for the actors who now tread the stage . You say , the awful spirit of demo- cracy is in great progress . I believe it , and I know something of the nature of it . It is a + young rake who thinks himself handsome and well made , 18.
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... believe they are , will forever prevent him from being a suc- cessful rival to Mr. Strong . If he lives , I be- lieve he will teaze the national or state govern- ment into some appointment of him , to some- thing or other ; for , his ...
... believe they are , will forever prevent him from being a suc- cessful rival to Mr. Strong . If he lives , I be- lieve he will teaze the national or state govern- ment into some appointment of him , to some- thing or other ; for , his ...
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... believe them- selves , when they say , that I am on the side of the executive , through the whole of his admi- nistration ? Do they believe that I approve of the repeal of the Judiciary law , which I recom- mended to Congress ? which I ...
... believe them- selves , when they say , that I am on the side of the executive , through the whole of his admi- nistration ? Do they believe that I approve of the repeal of the Judiciary law , which I recom- mended to Congress ? which I ...
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... believe that I approve of the repeal of the taxes , which would have enabled us not only to make the necessary pre- parations against the formidable dangers that surrounded us , but gradually to diminish the na- tional debt ? Do they ...
... believe that I approve of the repeal of the taxes , which would have enabled us not only to make the necessary pre- parations against the formidable dangers that surrounded us , but gradually to diminish the na- tional debt ? Do they ...
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Page 173 - ... determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 169 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 172 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 172 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 175 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Page 173 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 174 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Page 174 - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension; that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain; that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them; but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution...
Page 71 - Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States.
Page 167 - Reason first, you are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second, I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third, you can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "if you are decided, I will do as well as I can.