Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Tema 299,Volumen3Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1926 |
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... transmitted to General Heath January 14 , and by him delivered to General Burgoyne February 4 . 66 A fair indication of the state of mind which prevailed in Congress upon this question may be gained from an enigmatical passage in a ...
... transmitted to General Heath January 14 , and by him delivered to General Burgoyne February 4 . 66 A fair indication of the state of mind which prevailed in Congress upon this question may be gained from an enigmatical passage in a ...
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... transmitting the act to Governor Trumbull , and giving a summary account of the proceedings upon it , solemnly averred that it was the result of the most painful and disagreeable question that hath ever been agitated in Congress ...
... transmitting the act to Governor Trumbull , and giving a summary account of the proceedings upon it , solemnly averred that it was the result of the most painful and disagreeable question that hath ever been agitated in Congress ...
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... transmitted their acts of ratification within the next few weeks , but nearly all of these were accompanied by proposed amendments or other conditions , a few of them even having the character of ultimata . By the end of May , although ...
... transmitted their acts of ratification within the next few weeks , but nearly all of these were accompanied by proposed amendments or other conditions , a few of them even having the character of ultimata . By the end of May , although ...
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... transmitted a Copy of the Act to Capt Hopkins . you are desired Gentlemen to cause that Act to be published in the Boston and other Eastern News - papers and to give proper notice of the dismission to the Several Commanders of State ...
... transmitted a Copy of the Act to Capt Hopkins . you are desired Gentlemen to cause that Act to be published in the Boston and other Eastern News - papers and to give proper notice of the dismission to the Several Commanders of State ...
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... transmitted it without delay . " 10. THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS ( HENRY LAURENS ) TO THE GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND ( NICHOLAS COOKE ) .1 Sir- 3d Jany 1778 . Since my last of the 23d Decem . I have had the honour of your favour of the 8th ...
... transmitted it without delay . " 10. THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS ( HENRY LAURENS ) TO THE GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND ( NICHOLAS COOKE ) .1 Sir- 3d Jany 1778 . Since my last of the 23d Decem . I have had the honour of your favour of the 8th ...
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Página 149 - ... well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection or hope of reward:" provided also that no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the united states.
Página xvii - Your lordship may be assured, that when the king of Great Britain shall be seriously disposed to put an end to the unprovoked and cruel war waged against these United States, Congress will readily attend to such terms of peace, as may consist with the honor of independent nations, the interest of their constituents, and the sacred regard they mean to pay to treaties.
Página 293 - And further, the committee beg leave to report it as their opinion, that these United States cannot, with propriety, hold any conference or treaty with any commissioners on the part of Great Britain, unless they shall, as a preliminary thereto, either withdraw their fleets and armies, or else, in positive and express terms, acknowledge the independence of the said states.
Página xvii - Above all, bring forward your armies into the field. Trust not to appearances of peace or safety. Be assured that, unless you persevere, you will be exposed to every species of barbarity. But, if you exert the means of defence which God and nature have given you, the time will soon arrive when every man shall sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
Página 33 - That the officers who shall continue in the service to the end of the war, shall also be entitled to half pay during life, to commence from the time of their reduction.
Página xv - United States cannot with propriety hold any conference or treaty with any commissioners on the part of Great Britain, unless they shall, as a preliminary thereto, either withdraw their fleets 1779. and armies, or else in positive and express terms, acknowledge the independence of the said states.
Página 151 - Congress, together with the names of the officers reduced, who are to be allow'd half pay for life. "That the officers who shall continue in service to the end of the War shall be entitled to half pay during life, to commence from the time of their Reduction.
Página 451 - true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness.
Página 66 - Opportunities have been neglected last campaign which were truly golden ones, but omnipotent fatality had, it seems, determined that the American capital should fall. Our sentiments on this occasion are so- perfectly coincident that I will not enlarge. The mighty Senate of America is not what you have known it.
Página 299 - In short, to establish the power of the respective Legislatures in each particular State to settle its revenue, its civil and military establishment, and to exercise a perfect freedom of legislation and internal government, so that the British States throughout North America, acting with us in peace and war under one common Sovereign, may have the irrevocable enjoyment of every privilege that is short of a total separation of interests or consistent with that union of force, on which the safety of...