History of the United States: From Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Close of the War with Great Britain, in 1815 |
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... towns to their king , Powhatan . At the end of six weeks , their chiefs assembled to deliberate on his fate . They decided that he should die . He was led forth to execution ; his head was placed upon a stone , and an Indian stood near ...
... towns to their king , Powhatan . At the end of six weeks , their chiefs assembled to deliberate on his fate . They decided that he should die . He was led forth to execution ; his head was placed upon a stone , and an Indian stood near ...
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... towns were founded . And another charter was granted by the king , conferring addi- tional privileges . In 1612 , Captain Argal having learned , while on a trading voyage to the Potomac , that Poca- hontas was in the neighbourhood ...
... towns were founded . And another charter was granted by the king , conferring addi- tional privileges . In 1612 , Captain Argal having learned , while on a trading voyage to the Potomac , that Poca- hontas was in the neighbourhood ...
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... towns . Of these persons all were respectable , and many were from illus- trious and noble families . Having been accus- tomed to a life of ease and enjoyment , their sufferings the first year were great , and proved fatal to many ...
... towns . Of these persons all were respectable , and many were from illus- trious and noble families . Having been accus- tomed to a life of ease and enjoyment , their sufferings the first year were great , and proved fatal to many ...
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... towns . They delegated to twenty- four representatives the authority granted by the charter to the whole body of freemen . This important alteration was adopted the more readily as the emigrants had been familiar , in their native ...
... towns . They delegated to twenty- four representatives the authority granted by the charter to the whole body of freemen . This important alteration was adopted the more readily as the emigrants had been familiar , in their native ...
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... town . Many of the Indians perished in the flames ; others were shot in their attempts to flee . Of five or six hundred within the enclosure , but few escaped . The English troops , of whom two were killed and sixteen wounded , returned ...
... town . Many of the Indians perished in the flames ; others were shot in their attempts to flee . Of five or six hundred within the enclosure , but few escaped . The English troops , of whom two were killed and sixteen wounded , returned ...
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Page 195 - It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Page 440 - ... when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us. I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and...
Page 253 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 197 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Page 223 - What is to defend us against so enormous, so unlimited a power ? Not a single man of those who assume it is chosen by us, or is subject to our...
Page 440 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 332 - ... exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
Page 196 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.
Page 225 - With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Page 332 - ... it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success...