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" It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration. "
The Congressional Globe - Page 1671
by United States. Congress
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 2; Volume 10; Volume 59

United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 736 pages
...recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They...out their treasures and their blood like water, in a conless saeatest, in opposition to an assertion, which those cious and not so well schooled in the...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 2; Volume 10; Volume 59

United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 734 pages
...case, nor that which ought most to alarm against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against я declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood like water, in a contest, in opposition...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

Religion - 1835 - 1040 pages
...recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They...parade of words. They saw in the claim of the British Parlia-. ment, a seminal principle of mischief, the germ of unjust power; they detected it, dragged...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett ..., Volume 1

William Leggett - Political science - 1840 - 324 pages
...recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 1

William Leggett - United States - 1840 - 324 pages
...recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against...
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The North American Review, Volume 59

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble ! They...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words Ou this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against...
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Essays and Reviews ...

Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble ! They...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words. . .... On this question of principle, while actual Buffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 2

Daniel Webster - 1848 - 498 pages
...recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, .that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They...water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion whicb those less sagacious, and not so well schooled in the principles of civil liberty, would have...
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Reminiscences of Congress

Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 322 pages
...the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They...declaration. They poured out their treasures and their blood»like water, in a contest in opposition to an assertion which those less sagacious, and not so...
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Essays and Reviews, Volume 1

Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1851 - 434 pages
...parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to mar against a preamble ! They fought seven years against...regarded as barren phraseology, or mere parade of words On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against...
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