The Life of Elbridge Gerry: With Contemporary Letters. To the Close of the American Revolution, Հատոր 1Wells and Lilly, 1828 |
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The Life of Elbridge Gerry: With Contemporary Letters. To the Close ..., Հատոր 1 James Trecothick Austin Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1828 |
The Life of Elbridge Gerry: With Contemporary Letters. To the Close ..., Հատոր 1 James Trecothick Austin Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1828 |
The Life of Elbridge Gerry: With Contemporary Letters. To the Close ..., Հատոր 2 James Trecothick Austin Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1829 |
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Էջ 196 - 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...
Էջ 320 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate ; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the said Journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the...
Էջ 389 - STATES, and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Էջ 196 - 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...
Էջ iv - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Ma,ps, Charts, and Dooks, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Էջ 199 - Resolved, That the Declaration, passed on the fourth, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ' ; and that the same, when engrossed be signed by every member of Congress.
Էջ 66 - I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon, to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Էջ 392 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Էջ 382 - ... that as his uniform and unceasing attachment to this country has resembled that of a patriotic citizen, the United States regard him with particular affection, and will not cease to feel an interest in whatever may concern his honor and prosperity, and that their best and kindest wishes will always attend him.
Էջ 122 - Seek virtue first, be bold ! As gold to silver, virtue is to gold." There London's voice, " Get money, money still! And then let Virtue follow if she will.