 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...Philada. July 5. 1775 You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...long Friends: You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 9 November 1779 Franklin was considered by the Enlightenment to be a philosopher,... | |
 | Donald W. Livingston - History - 1998 - 470 pages
...harsh words to Strahan: "You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...were long Friends: You are now my Enemy and I am, Yours."18 Had the war not occurred, Strahan might well have produced an American edition of the works... | |
 | Susan Hill Lindley - Religion - 1996 - 520 pages
...Congressman, "bound in blood-red cloth. . . . Embossed on the cover were the words of Benjamin Franklin: 'Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations.'"5- She then turned her attention to the plight of the California Mission Indians, another... | |
 | Ford - American newspapers - 1999 - 412 pages
...him to William Strahan: You are a member of Parliament and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our...you are now my enemy, and I am, yours, B. Franklin, was seriously meant and actually sent. It was merely a jeu d'esprit, without any serious intention.... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 607 pages
...calculated fury: Mr. Strahan, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our...You are now my enemy, and I am, Yours, B. Franklin. What made the famous letter especially odd was that Franklin allowed it to be circulated and publicized... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 pages
...JULY 5, 1775 Mr. Strahan, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our...you are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, B. Franklin PROPOSED ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION In order for the colonies to become independent of Britain, they... | |
 | Sidney Lens - History - 2003 - 484 pages
...her work to every member of Congress with Benjamin Franklin's words inscribed in red on the cover: "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations." Such exposes of the treatment of the Indians produced some changes, but they didn't work out as Mrs.... | |
 | Julie Des Jardins - History - 2003 - 402 pages
...Dawes Act in 1887. Bound in red cloth, her books were embossed with Benjamin Franklin's famous words, "Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations."45 In accordance with the new Dawes legislation, anthropologist Alice Fletcher took part... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 330 pages
...William Strahan. Mr. Strahan, You are a Member of Parliament and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood ot your Relations! You and I were long Friends: You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, B. Franklin... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 324 pages
...William Strahan. Mr. Strahan, You are a Member of Parliament and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our...You are now my Enemy, and I am, Yours, B. Franklin Of course, he never sent this outrageous letter, the like of which he never wrote to any of his other... | |
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MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations... 
