Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1F. Carr, and Company, 1829 - United States |
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... leaving my mother a widow , who lived till 1776 , with six daughters and two sons , myself the elder . To my younger brother he left his estate on James river , called Snowden , after the supposed birth place of the family to myself ...
... leaving my mother a widow , who lived till 1776 , with six daughters and two sons , myself the elder . To my younger brother he left his estate on James river , called Snowden , after the supposed birth place of the family to myself ...
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... leaving three daughters : the portion which came on that event to Mrs. Jeffer- son , after the debts should be paid , which were very considerable , was about equal to my own patrimony , and consequently doubled the ease of our ...
... leaving three daughters : the portion which came on that event to Mrs. Jeffer- son , after the debts should be paid , which were very considerable , was about equal to my own patrimony , and consequently doubled the ease of our ...
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... leave to withdraw from the question ; which was given them . The committee rose and reported their resolution to the House . Mr. Edward Rutledge , of South Carolina , then request- ed the determination might be put off to the next day ...
... leave to withdraw from the question ; which was given them . The committee rose and reported their resolution to the House . Mr. Edward Rutledge , of South Carolina , then request- ed the determination might be put off to the next day ...
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... leave it in the power of the smaller states to give prepon- derance to any scale they please . The voting by the number of free inhabitants , will have one excellent effect , that of inducing the colonies to discourage slavery , and to ...
... leave it in the power of the smaller states to give prepon- derance to any scale they please . The voting by the number of free inhabitants , will have one excellent effect , that of inducing the colonies to discourage slavery , and to ...
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... leave to bring in a bill for the establish- ment of courts of justice , the organization of which was of impor- tance . I drew the bill ; it was approved by the committee , re- ported and passed , after going through its due course . On ...
... leave to bring in a bill for the establish- ment of courts of justice , the organization of which was of impor- tance . I drew the bill ; it was approved by the committee , re- ported and passed , after going through its due course . On ...
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Page 5 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Page 3 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Page 5 - 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.
Page 78 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.
Page 5 - 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.
Page 416 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Page 7 - ... We therefore the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled, appealing to the supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these [states reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through or under them ; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the...
Page 6 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Page 102 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.