Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 4John Sanderson, Robert Waln W. Brown and C. Peters, 1828 - United States This work contains biographies on all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. |
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... cause their example may prove useful to others . Few of the splendid luminaries which have adorned the political firmament of the republic , possess stronger claims to this distinction than THOMAS M'KEAN . Living in tur- bulent and ...
... cause their example may prove useful to others . Few of the splendid luminaries which have adorned the political firmament of the republic , possess stronger claims to this distinction than THOMAS M'KEAN . Living in tur- bulent and ...
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... cause , and to its agents . With an eye steadily fixed on free- dom , and minds chafed with the superciliousness of mercenary minions of oppression , they nobly resolved to systematise an opposition to the growing tyranny of the mother ...
... cause , and to its agents . With an eye steadily fixed on free- dom , and minds chafed with the superciliousness of mercenary minions of oppression , they nobly resolved to systematise an opposition to the growing tyranny of the mother ...
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... cause of his objections . Mr. M Kean rejoined , that the gentlemen present had met together to endeavour to obtain the repeal of an unconstitutional and oppressive act of the British parliament , and a redress of other grievances ; that ...
... cause of his objections . Mr. M Kean rejoined , that the gentlemen present had met together to endeavour to obtain the repeal of an unconstitutional and oppressive act of the British parliament , and a redress of other grievances ; that ...
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... cause , and some of them , to my own knowledge , warmly in favour of independence , pre- vious to the day on which it was declared , yet I personally know that none of them were in congress on that day . " Modesty should not rob any man ...
... cause , and some of them , to my own knowledge , warmly in favour of independence , pre- vious to the day on which it was declared , yet I personally know that none of them were in congress on that day . " Modesty should not rob any man ...
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... causing to be pun- ished , even unto death , those who were proved to be traitors to their country . Such was the miserable fate of Roberts and Carlisle , the lamented victims of inflexible justice . Abraham Carlisle was a carpenter in ...
... causing to be pun- ished , even unto death , those who were proved to be traitors to their country . Such was the miserable fate of Roberts and Carlisle , the lamented victims of inflexible justice . Abraham Carlisle was a carpenter in ...
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Page 247 - 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 314 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 314 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 199 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 247 - 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 restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 247 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another...
Page 249 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 245 - He has endeavoured 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...
Page 345 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.