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... British commander . Virginia , however , was divided ; on one side were the " big wigs " and aristoc- racy ; on the other , the yeomanry , led by Patrick Henry . The vote was very close ; and the morning after the House of Burgesses ...
... British commander . Virginia , however , was divided ; on one side were the " big wigs " and aristoc- racy ; on the other , the yeomanry , led by Patrick Henry . The vote was very close ; and the morning after the House of Burgesses ...
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... British goods of almost every kind . Agreements were made all over the country not to import goods of British manufacture . All were boycotted because of the principle of " taxation with- out representation . " " Tea , " about 1773 ...
... British goods of almost every kind . Agreements were made all over the country not to import goods of British manufacture . All were boycotted because of the principle of " taxation with- out representation . " " Tea , " about 1773 ...
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... British called Mecklenburg county " the hornet's nest . " It is the mother of patriots and heroes , the Polks be- ing especially distinguished . Colonel Thomas Polk was very active in calling the Convention of 1775 , and read the ...
... British called Mecklenburg county " the hornet's nest . " It is the mother of patriots and heroes , the Polks be- ing especially distinguished . Colonel Thomas Polk was very active in calling the Convention of 1775 , and read the ...
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... British powder ship , bearing 13,000 pounds of pow- der for the use of the royal troops , arrived at Tybee Island , below Savannah ; again , the heroic Habersham was ready to serve his country . With a party of thirty volunteers , he ...
... British powder ship , bearing 13,000 pounds of pow- der for the use of the royal troops , arrived at Tybee Island , below Savannah ; again , the heroic Habersham was ready to serve his country . With a party of thirty volunteers , he ...
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... British officers who had surrendered to him . " Though history has rather overlooked this hero , his own state crowned him with civic honors , still reveres his mem- ory , and is erecting monuments in his honor . We can of course name ...
... British officers who had surrendered to him . " Though history has rather overlooked this hero , his own state crowned him with civic honors , still reveres his mem- ory , and is erecting monuments in his honor . We can of course name ...
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Page 198 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Page 192 - State to interpose its authority for their protection in the manner best calculated to secure that end. When emergencies occur which are either beyond the reach of the judicial tribunals, or too pressing to admit of the delay incident to their forms, States which have no common umpire must be their own judges, and execute their own decisions.
Page 185 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation; amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 61 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Page 188 - Nay : we hold, with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless...
Page 198 - Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own so much of the territory as they inhabit.
Page 254 - tis gory, Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory, And 'twill live in song and story Though its folds are in the dust: For its fame on brightest pages Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages Furl its folds though now we must.
Page 306 - Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah "shall not vex Ephraim...
Page 147 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 21 - Give us back the ties of Yorktown, Perish all the modern hates, Let us stand together, brothers, In defiance of the Fates, For the safety of the Union Is the safety of the States.