Questions and Supplement to Goodrich's History of the United StatesJenks & Palmer, 1846 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 98
... of Assistance . Who frustrated the Writs of As- sistance ? Mr. James Otis . How ? By a speech , perhaps the most eloquent and powerful , ever delivered by man uninspired . Who has given a most striking account of these writs 98.
... of Assistance . Who frustrated the Writs of As- sistance ? Mr. James Otis . How ? By a speech , perhaps the most eloquent and powerful , ever delivered by man uninspired . Who has given a most striking account of these writs 98.
الصفحة 101
... Otis and Mr. Thatcher , who accepted , to defend them against this terrible , mena- cing monster , the Writ of Assist- ance . Great fees were offered ; but Otis , and I believe , Thatcher , would accept of none . " In such a cause , " said ...
... Otis and Mr. Thatcher , who accepted , to defend them against this terrible , mena- cing monster , the Writ of Assist- ance . Great fees were offered ; but Otis , and I believe , Thatcher , would accept of none . " In such a cause , " said ...
الصفحة 102
... Otis's speech appear to go away ? For what , did Hutchinson say , there was no foundation , some days afterwards ? In what manner , was it said , that the court granted the Writs after several months ? Meaning of clandestinely ? can see ...
... Otis's speech appear to go away ? For what , did Hutchinson say , there was no foundation , some days afterwards ? In what manner , was it said , that the court granted the Writs after several months ? Meaning of clandestinely ? can see ...
الصفحة 103
... Otis breathe into the nation ? Effect of the British efforts to cripple the colonies during the fourth period ? What did Britain show the colo- nies , by leaving them to bear almost the whole weight of the war of 1756 ? Of what , did ...
... Otis breathe into the nation ? Effect of the British efforts to cripple the colonies during the fourth period ? What did Britain show the colo- nies , by leaving them to bear almost the whole weight of the war of 1756 ? Of what , did ...
الصفحة 106
... Otis ? such a tyrant ? He was educated by the earl. What war commenced in 1702 , and terminated in 1713 ? What Indian tribe did the Span- iards instigate to destroy all the Carolinians in 1715 ? What important place did Pep- perell and ...
... Otis ? such a tyrant ? He was educated by the earl. What war commenced in 1702 , and terminated in 1713 ? What Indian tribe did the Span- iards instigate to destroy all the Carolinians in 1715 ? What important place did Pep- perell and ...
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الصفحة 179 - 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...
الصفحة 178 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
الصفحة 179 - ... the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; 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...
الصفحة 137 - Read this declaration at the head of the army: every sword will be drawn from its scabbard, and the solemn vow uttered to maintain it, or to perish on the bed of honor.
الصفحة 139 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
الصفحة 138 - They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, — copious, gushing tears ; not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.
الصفحة 179 - ... freedom of religion ; freedom of the press; and freedom of person under the protection of the Habeas Corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
الصفحة 136 - The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded to her own interest, for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach forth to it, and it is ours. Why then should we defer the declaration? Is any man so weak as now to hope for a reconciliation with England, which shall leave either safety to the country and its liberties, or safety to his own life and his own honor...
الصفحة 137 - Publish it from the pulpit ; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there ; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon ; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker 'I • Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
الصفحة 136 - The war, then, must go on. We must fight it through. And if the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence ? That measure will strengthen us. It will give us character abroad. The nations will then treat with us, which they never can do while we acknowledge ourselves subjects in arms against our sovereign. Nay, I maintain that England, herself, will sooner treat for peace with us on the footing of Independence, than consent, by repealing her acts, to acknowledge that her whole...