Pictorial History of the United States of America: From the Earliest Period to the Close of President Taylor's Administration ...Phillips, Sampson, 1851 - 500 pages |
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Page 40 - We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason and such as lived after the manner of the Golden Age.
Page 371 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to conform to the separation ; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States, as an independent power.
Page 206 - But if you are determined that your ministers shall wantonly sport with the rights of mankind : if neither the voice of justice, the dictates of the law, the principles of the constitution, or the suggestions of humanity, can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause, we must then tell you, that we will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world.
Page 339 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor?
Page 200 - ... will vanquish our foes. Let us consider the issue. Let us look to the end. Let us weigh and consider before we advance to those measures which must bring on the most trying and terrible struggle this country ever saw.
Page 69 - ... no person or persons whatsoever, within this province, or the islands, ports, harbours, creeks, or havens thereunto belonging, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced, for, or in respect of, his or her religion, nor in the free exercise thereof, within this province, or the islands thereunto belonging, nor anyway compelled to the belief or exercise of any religion against his or her consent...
Page 102 - The old magistrates were reinstated, as a council of safety ; the whole town rose in arms, " with the most unanimous resolution that ever inspired a people ; " and a Declaration, read from the balcony, defended the insurrection as a duty to God and the country.
Page 255 - Shall this great kingdom, that has survived whole and entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was!
Page 332 - In vain, does the thirst of riches preponderate, over honor in the political balance of America. All this management, all this condescension, all this humility end in nothing. Our enemies laugh at it, and the French too confident, are punished for having believed that the American Nation had a flag, that they had some respect for their laws, some conviction of their strength, and entertained some sentiment of dignity.
Page 361 - But before we speak to you concerning this, we must know from you whether you mean to leave us and our children any land to till.