 | Alpheus Henry Snow - Political science - 1907 - 82 pages
...Declaration, which reads: "We, therefore, * * * declare that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, * * * and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." In the first draft of... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1910 - 540 pages
...the Continental Congress, on June 7, 1776, declarine that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States ; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, r.nd ought to be, totally dissolved." As an orator he possessed... | |
 | William Walker Canfield, J. E. Clark - History - 1909 - 178 pages
...born with the new republic. July 2, 1776. Congress said: "That these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states ; and that...Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved." On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, proclaiming to the world that a new Republic... | |
 | 1913 - 520 pages
...independent States," May 15, 1776. Richard Henry Lee moved in Congress, "That these United Colonies are and ought to be free and independent States, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved," June 7, 1776. Virginia Convention... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden - Banners - 1916 - 210 pages
...rights as Englishmen. On the 4th of July, 1776, the Declaration of American Independence proclaimed "that all political connection between us and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved," and a year later the Congress adopted the flag of thirteen stripes... | |
 | Augusta Stevenson - Children's plays - 1916 - 316 pages
...resolution? SECRETARY (rising and reading). Be it resolved : That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. plain that this resolution... | |
 | Charles Lemuel Thompson - United States - 1917 - 334 pages
...June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, moved in Congress " that these united colonies are and ought to be free and independent states, and that all political connection between them and Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved." Here was material for Thomas Jefferson... | |
 | Anna Lydia Russell Vance - Flags - 1917 - 28 pages
...Spangled Banner On the 2d of July, 1776, Congress resolved, "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britian is, and ought to be totally dissolved." On the 4th of July, the... | |
 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - United States - 1921 - 490 pages
...orator — had fearlessly read aloud the resolution, " That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; and that...connection between us and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." John Adams quickly seconded the resolution, though for the sake... | |
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That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; and that all political connection between us and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. 
