| Lewis Alexander Leonard - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 350 pages
...correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their...disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free elections re-established them in power. At this very time they are permitting their chief magistrate... | |
| Clinton Stoddard Burr - Aliens - 1922 - 412 pages
...the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, there was the fact of the English King sending over "not only soldiers of our common blood, but 'Scotch...and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us." The descendants of the Scots who came over after the defeat of Culloden were undoubtedly Tories; as... | |
| John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 578 pages
...and when occasions have been given them by the regular course of their law, of removing from thtir councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have...foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These factt have given the last stab to agoniting affection, and manly spirit bids ut to renounce for ever... | |
| 1923 - 916 pages
...desolation, and tyranny"; and in another paragraph, aimed at the people of England, this: "At this very time they are permitting their chief magistrate to send...only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and other foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us." These passages were stricken out by the Congress,... | |
| Everett H. Emerson - American literature - 1977 - 328 pages
...the Parliament that they have elected. But the draft goes on to make a far more grievous complaint: at this very time too they are permitting their chief...not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & deluge us in blood, these facts have given the last stab to agonizing... | |
| Richard C. Simmons - History - 1981 - 452 pages
...keeping in power by their free election "the disturbers of our harmony" and "at this very time too ... permitting their chief magistrate to send over not...blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and deluge us in blood." The first item was deleted at the request of southerners who knew that their constituents... | |
| John Greville Agard Pocock - History - 1985 - 336 pages
...at their head for a ministry . . ." 18 See Jefferson's drafts for the Declaration of Independence: "Not only soldiers of our common blood. but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us . . ." Carl Becker, The Declaration of necessarily popular in the sense that it was outside the intimate... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...correspondence. they too have been deaf to the voice of justice &. of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of remov1ng from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished... | |
| Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 264 pages
...correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice & of consanguinity, and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils trie Qisturocrs or our nsrrnony, tncy n3vc, Dy tncir tree ^* * t* CT lOii, iv. '*" CrST (TilI 1SO ttt... | |
| Ian Charles Cargill Graham - Electronic books - 2009 - 223 pages
...Independence, he complained that the "British" (by which term he could only have meant the English) were permitting their chief magistrate "to send over not...and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us." To Jefferson, the English were his "unfeeling brethren." But the Scots were to be classed with the... | |
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