| Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...begun to burn our towns and murder our peoule. Look upon your hands. cney are stamed with the blooa 01 your relations ! You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours, " B. FRANKLIN." This letter, which was published in the London papers soon after its receipt, was the subject of a... | |
| Willis's Current notes - 1856 - 110 pages
...5, 1775. Mr. Stiahan, — You are a member of Parliament, and of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Ixjok upon your hands ! — They are stained with the blood of your delations ! — You and I were... | |
| Antiquarian booksellers - 1856 - 696 pages
...5, 1775. Mr. Strahan, — You are a member of Parliament, and of that Majority which ha» doomed ray Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — lx)ok upon your hands I — They are stained with the blood of your Relations ! — You and I were... | |
| George Willis - 1856 - 112 pages
...manly avowal. Mr. Strahan,—Yon are a member of Parliament, and of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People.—1xiok upon your hands !—They are stained with the blood of your Itehttions !—You and... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...London. " Mr. Strahan : " You are a Member of Parliament and one of that ma" jority which has doomed my country to destruction. " You have begun to burn our..." friends ; you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, " BENJAMIN FRANKLIN." t The Petition to the King was by no means the only document which the Congress... | |
| Edmund Fillingham King - 1859 - 360 pages
...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. HENEY II. STBIPT WHEN DEAD. 1189. Immediately upon his death, those that were about him applied their... | |
| George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 pages
...the fifth of July : " 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." But Franklin did not attempt to overrule the opinions or defy the scruples of his colleagues, and,... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 pages
...on the fifth of July: " 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.'7 But Franklin did not attempt to overrule the opinions or defy the scruples of his colleagues,... | |
| John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 644 pages
...parliament, and are of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn oui towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands; they are stained with the blood of your relatives ! You aud I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours, " BENJAMIN FKAXKLIX."... | |
| John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 650 pages
...towns, and murder oor people. Look upon your Lands; tlu-y are stained with 1&e blood of your relatives ! You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours, , " BJENJAMIM FRANKLIN/' The spirit of hostility which now blazed out in minds which disdained the.... | |
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