Illustrated History, Comprising in a Condensed Form a History of the United States, a Geography of the Western Continent, and the Chief Objects of Interest on the Eastern Continent, Including a Hihstorical and Descriptive Sketch of the Holy Land |
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... Congress , composed of delegates from the thirteen colonies , met at Philadelphia . It was composed of the wisest and best men the colonies afforded . Among them were Wash- ington , Patrick Henry and John Adams . Their meeting was ...
... Congress , composed of delegates from the thirteen colonies , met at Philadelphia . It was composed of the wisest and best men the colonies afforded . Among them were Wash- ington , Patrick Henry and John Adams . Their meeting was ...
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... Congress , for the province of Massachusetts Bay , and especially the town of Boston . " This Congress , which was convened the 5th of September , remained in session until the 26th of October , when they ad- journed to meet again the ...
... Congress , for the province of Massachusetts Bay , and especially the town of Boston . " This Congress , which was convened the 5th of September , remained in session until the 26th of October , when they ad- journed to meet again the ...
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... two wounded . About this time , the people recommended Congress to declare the colonies absolved from allegiance to the crown , and Richard Henry Lee , Benjamin Franklin , Roger Sherman and Robert 50 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE .
... two wounded . About this time , the people recommended Congress to declare the colonies absolved from allegiance to the crown , and Richard Henry Lee , Benjamin Franklin , Roger Sherman and Robert 50 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE .
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... Congress at two o'clock on the 4th of July , 1776 . Congress did much to animate the hearts and support the people during the disastrous military campaign that followed . adopted by This act of In July the British fleet left Halifax ...
... Congress at two o'clock on the 4th of July , 1776 . Congress did much to animate the hearts and support the people during the disastrous military campaign that followed . adopted by This act of In July the British fleet left Halifax ...
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... Congress had no means of paying it . The articles of con- federation formed a sufficient constitution of government during the war , but were not adapted to the public wants of an inde- pendent sovereignty . In May , of the year 1787 ...
... Congress had no means of paying it . The articles of con- federation formed a sufficient constitution of government during the war , but were not adapted to the public wants of an inde- pendent sovereignty . In May , of the year 1787 ...
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Page 135 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 123 - The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.
Page 134 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 131 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 110 - He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 124 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 8 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 109 - He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 123 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Page 135 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans ; Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...