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... Britain's subjects . ' The correspondence between Dongan and Denonville is an amusing compound of deferential scolding and tart amenities.1 SIR : GOVERNOR DONGAN TO M. DE DENONVILLE , OCTOBER 13 , 1685 I have had the honor of receiving ...
... Britain's subjects . ' The correspondence between Dongan and Denonville is an amusing compound of deferential scolding and tart amenities.1 SIR : GOVERNOR DONGAN TO M. DE DENONVILLE , OCTOBER 13 , 1685 I have had the honor of receiving ...
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... Britain . . . . I am Partizan . I do not palliate the errors of Great Britain . I do flatter the passions of America . . . . I have stated the fact , the right , in hopes to point out what is the true and cons tional relation between ...
... Britain . . . . I am Partizan . I do not palliate the errors of Great Britain . I do flatter the passions of America . . . . I have stated the fact , the right , in hopes to point out what is the true and cons tional relation between ...
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... Britains [ Britons ] , both in this island , and in America , will divide them into parties -the spirit of mutual animosity and opposition will take ad- vantage of the total want of established and fixed principles on this subject , to ...
... Britains [ Britons ] , both in this island , and in America , will divide them into parties -the spirit of mutual animosity and opposition will take ad- vantage of the total want of established and fixed principles on this subject , to ...
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... of the Declaration of Independence , was an ardent advocate of American equality with Great Britain . After showing how " colonies in general , both ancient and modern , have always enjoyed as much freedom British Rule in America 115.
... of the Declaration of Independence , was an ardent advocate of American equality with Great Britain . After showing how " colonies in general , both ancient and modern , have always enjoyed as much freedom British Rule in America 115.
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... Britain ; that they do not hold those rights as a privilege granted them , nor enjoy them as a grace and favor bestowed ; but possess them as an inherent indefeasible right ; as they , and their ancestors , were free - born subjects ...
... Britain ; that they do not hold those rights as a privilege granted them , nor enjoy them as a grace and favor bestowed ; but possess them as an inherent indefeasible right ; as they , and their ancestors , were free - born subjects ...
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Page 408 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 276 - ... the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 384 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 177 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 253 - We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 236 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue...
Page 253 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments...
Page 384 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 244 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 555 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.