 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...freemen rather than live slaves," they proceed to say, "we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored ; .... we have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain and establishing... | |
 | United States - 1860 - 36 pages
...and necessity of their taking up arms, they say, * we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. * ***** We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing... | |
 | John Jay - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 80 pages
...up arms," and in this they proclaimed, "we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and eo happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." On the 8th of July, 1775, two days later, Congress individually signed a petition to the King. This... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, \ve assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which...establishing independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which...establishing independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 704 pages
...subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them, that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us. and which we sincerely wish to sec restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 794 pages
...is the word of threat italicized in this passage : " We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, nor induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1875 - 522 pages
...mother-country, but only to maintain their chartered rights." And in speaking of those rights the) said, " We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...establishing independent States. We fight not for glory or for conquest Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received... | |
 | Committee on National Centennial Commemoration - 1876 - 110 pages
...fellow-subjects in any part of the Empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored." This address was penned by Thomas Jefferson, and was read amid thundering huzzas in every market-place,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...every part of the empire," " \Ve assure them that ive mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to be restored.'.' The declaration on the 6th of July, 1775, was a declaration of war, but not of independence.... | |
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Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to... 
