The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to the Year 1826, Volumen2Hilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... congress . since inhabiting in this his majesty's said colony , all the liberties , privileges , franchises , and immunities , that have at any time been held , enjoyed , and possessed , by the people of Great Britain : That by two ...
... congress . since inhabiting in this his majesty's said colony , all the liberties , privileges , franchises , and immunities , that have at any time been held , enjoyed , and possessed , by the people of Great Britain : That by two ...
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... congress . convened in the city of New York , and Timothy Ruggles , of Massachusetts , was chosen president . The first measure of the congress was a declaration of the rights and grievances of the Declaration colonists . They were ...
... congress . convened in the city of New York , and Timothy Ruggles , of Massachusetts , was chosen president . The first measure of the congress was a declaration of the rights and grievances of the Declaration colonists . They were ...
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... congress , having resumed the con- Resolve on sideration of the means necessary to the restoration of American an address rights , resolved unanimously , " that a loyal address to his majesty be prepared , dutifully requesting the royal ...
... congress , having resumed the con- Resolve on sideration of the means necessary to the restoration of American an address rights , resolved unanimously , " that a loyal address to his majesty be prepared , dutifully requesting the royal ...
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... congress dissolved themselves ; but not without giving their opinion , " that another congress should be held on the tenth of May next ensuing , at Philadelphia , unless the redress of their grievances should be previously obtained ...
... congress dissolved themselves ; but not without giving their opinion , " that another congress should be held on the tenth of May next ensuing , at Philadelphia , unless the redress of their grievances should be previously obtained ...
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... congress , meeting again in November , resolved to get in readiness 12,000 men , to act on any emergency ; and that a fourth part of the militia should be enlisted as minute men , and receive pay ; appointed two additional general ...
... congress , meeting again in November , resolved to get in readiness 12,000 men , to act on any emergency ; and that a fourth part of the militia should be enlisted as minute men , and receive pay ; appointed two additional general ...
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Página 277 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States ; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Página 277 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Página 347 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Página 418 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 197 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men!
Página 418 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 374 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Página 348 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Página 348 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Página 278 - Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...