Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Issue 299, Volume 1Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921 - United States |
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Page xxiv - It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Page 77 - and by the high style of their eloquence, were, in the first days of the session, looked up to as primi inter pares, a Petition to the king, an Address to the people of Great Britain and a Memorial to the people of British America were agreed to be drawn. Lee, Henry
Page 533 - Ordered, That an authenticated copy of the Declaration of Independency, with the names of the members of Congress subscribing the same, be sent to each of the United States, and that they be desired to have the same put upon record.
Page 533 - Resolved, That the Declaration passed on the 4th, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and stile of ' The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America ', and that the same, when engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress.
Page 516 - of June, to draught a Declaration of Independence, Mr. Adams had been chosen on the next day. one of a Committee to prepare a plan of treaties to be proposed to foreign powers, and on the day after that, Chairman of the board of war.
Page 216 - Bay, and the President of the Convention of New Hampshire, (to whom I have wrote on the subject by order of Congress,) and such other Persons as to the said Committee shall seem proper, touching the most effectual Method of Continuing, supporting and Regulating a Continental Army. The Committee
Page 58 - I shall be killed with kindness in this place. We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon the most abstruse mysteries of state, until three in the afternoon ; then we adjourn, and go to dine with some of the nobles of Pennsylvania at four
Page 180 - PHILADELPHIA, July 24th, 1775 Dear Sir, In Confidence. I am determined to write freely to you this time. A certain great Fortune and piddling Genius, whose Fame has been trumpeted so loudly, has given a silly Cast to our whole Doings. 2
Page 42 - are respectively entitled to a free and exclusive power of Legislation in all cases of Taxation and internal Polity, subject only to the negative of the Crown,
Page 65 - Q. Was not there a resolution passed, entered unanimously, that every person acting under the authority of the Massachuset's charter act, ought to be held in detestation and abhorrence by all good men, and considered as the wicked tools of that despotism which is preparing to destroy those rights which God, nature, and compact had given to America