 That a meeting of committees from the several colonies on this continent is highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon the present state of the colonies, and the miseries to which they are and must be reduced by the operation of certain acts of Parliament...  Collections of the American Statistical Association - Page 391by American Statistical Association - 1847 - 596 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1856 - 734 pages
...would ever have been attempted. The mowed object of the Congress here proposed, we know to have been " the restoration of union and harmony between Great Britain and the Colonies ; " but if this had been the real motive in the minds of those who proposed this measure, why the observance... | |
 | William Archer Cocke - Constitutional history - 1858 - 444 pages
...happily subsisted between the Parent Country and her Colonies." Massachusetts. — " To consult on the present state of the Colonies, and the miseries...Colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." Rhode Island. — " To consult on proper measures to obtain a repeal of the several acts of the British... | |
 | Abel Parker Upshur - Constitutional history - 1863 - 188 pages
...once happily subsisted between the parent country and her colonies." Massachusetts. " To consult on the present state of the colonies, and the miseries...colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." I' is perfectly apparent that the mere * appointment of this congress did not make the people of all... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - United States - 1872 - 676 pages
...proper measures to be by them recommended to all the colonies for the recovery and establishment of just rights and liberties, civil and religious, and...colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." The time fixed was the first day of September, and the place Philadelphia, or any other place that... | |
 | Edward Howland - History - 1877 - 848 pages
...proper measures to be by them recommended to all the colonies for the recovery and establishment of just rights and liberties, civil and religious, and...colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." 1774, JUNE 22-25. — A convention of delegates from all the counties of Maryland declared, that if... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1880 - 556 pages
...the necessity of a general meeting of all the colonies in Congress, " in order to consult together upon the present state of the colonies, and the miseries...between Great Britain and the colonies, most ardently to be desired by all good men." They elected * " The people of Massachusetts were almost exclusively... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1882 - 614 pages
...which once happily subsisted between the parent country and her colonies.' Massachusetts spoke of ' the restoration of union and harmony between Great...the colonies most ardently desired by all good men.' Pennsylvania enjoined its representatives to aim not only at the redress of American grievances and... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - New York (State) - 1886 - 314 pages
...Empire, and so ardently desired by all British " America," ' for " the restoration of union and har" mony between Great Britain and the Colonies, most "ardently desired by all good men."2 The tone and the tendency of all that it did, however, were peculiarly revolutionary, in all... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Bronx (New York, N.Y.) - 1886 - 650 pages
...Empire, and so ardently desired by all British "America,"1 for "the restoration of union and har" mony between Great Britain and the Colonies, most "ardently desired by all good men."2 The tone and the tendency of all that it did, however, were peculiarly revolutionary, in all... | |
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