Pictorial History of the United States of America: From the Earliest Period to the Close of President Taylor's Administration ...Phillips, Sampson, 1851 - 500 страница |
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 255 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me, that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and noble monarchy. Pressed down as I am by the...
Страница 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.
Страница 424 - You are a fine young man, I pity your situation, for God's sake surrender, and prevent the dreadful slaughter that must follow resistance." Shipp turned from him with indignation, and was immediately taken hold of by an Indian, who attempted to wrest his sword from him.
Страница 424 - Shipp answered, that it was the determination of Major Croghan, his officers, and men, to defend the garrison, or be buried in it, and that they might do their best. Colonel Elliot addressed Mr. Shipp again — " You are a fine young man, I pity your situation ; for God's sake surrender, and prevent the dreadful slaughter which must follow resistance.