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... British Stamp - Act - Popular excitement Repeal of the obnoxious act . Non - importation agreement of patriot merchants The Boston massacre Destruction of the British armed schooner Gaspee The Boston Tea Party The Boston Port Bill ...
... British Stamp - Act - Popular excitement Repeal of the obnoxious act . Non - importation agreement of patriot merchants The Boston massacre Destruction of the British armed schooner Gaspee The Boston Tea Party The Boston Port Bill ...
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... British incursions - Mawhood - Abercrombie .... Evacuation of Philadelphia by the British . Affair at Newport - General Sullivan ... CHAP . XXXII . - The War on the Frontier Massacre of Wyoming .. Attack on Cherry Valley by Indians and ...
... British incursions - Mawhood - Abercrombie .... Evacuation of Philadelphia by the British . Affair at Newport - General Sullivan ... CHAP . XXXII . - The War on the Frontier Massacre of Wyoming .. Attack on Cherry Valley by Indians and ...
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... British merchants who were interested in the scheme of the Ohio Company , excited more attention in the parent state than colonial wrongs and quarrels had usually obtained ; and a memorial was accordingly presented this year by Lord ...
... British merchants who were interested in the scheme of the Ohio Company , excited more attention in the parent state than colonial wrongs and quarrels had usually obtained ; and a memorial was accordingly presented this year by Lord ...
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... British troops ; the second , which was to attempt the reduction of the French fort at Niagara , was committed to the American regulars and Indians , commanded by Governor Shirley , who now received the rank of a British general from ...
... British troops ; the second , which was to attempt the reduction of the French fort at Niagara , was committed to the American regulars and Indians , commanded by Governor Shirley , who now received the rank of a British general from ...
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... British Mutiny Act to North America ; and declaring that all troops , raised by any of the colonial governors or assemblies , should , whenever they acted in conjunction with the British soldiers , be subject to the same system of ...
... British Mutiny Act to North America ; and declaring that all troops , raised by any of the colonial governors or assemblies , should , whenever they acted in conjunction with the British soldiers , be subject to the same system of ...
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Page 997 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 995 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Page 995 - Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty; in this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that ' the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Page 995 - No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced.
Page 997 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for, though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 997 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 995 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Page 997 - This within certain limits is probably true : and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose.
Page 997 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
Page 237 - The cold was so extremely severe, that mr. Gist had all his fingers, and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island, on the ice, in the morning, and went to mr. Frazier's.