Memoirs of the Life of Henry Van Schaack: Embracing Selections from His Correspondence During the American RevolutionA. C. McClurg, 1892 - 233 halaman |
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Halaman 41 - That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for representatives in the legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association...
Halaman 26 - Whereas the power but not the justice, the vengeance but not the wisdom of Great Britain, which of old persecuted, scourged, and exiled our fugitive parents from their native shores, now pursues us their guiltless children, with unrelenting severity...
Halaman 118 - Richard Harrison, James Smith, and Benjamin Lapham, shall be, and . every of them are, hereby permitted to return to and reside within this State, without any molestation, and therein to remain until the end of the next meeting of the Legislature, or until further legislative provision shall be made in the premises...
Halaman 30 - ... half the Nation are Debtors if not more, and these have been in all Countries, the Sentiments of Debtors. If the Power of the Country should get into such hands, and there is great danger that it will, to what purpose have We sacrificed our Time, health and every Thing else? Surely We must guard against this Spirit and these Principles or We shall repent of all our Conduct.
Halaman 224 - October it was resolved, though not unanimously, " that this congress approve the opposition of the inhabitants of the Massachusetts Bay to the execution of the late acts of parliament, and, if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, all America ought to support them in their opposition.
Halaman 30 - I had commonly been successful in his favor in our courts of law. He was always in the law, and had been sued in many actions at almost every court. As soon as he saw me, he came up to me, and his first salutation to me was, " Oh ! Mr. Adams, what great things have you and your colleagues done for us ! We can never be grateful enough to you. There are no courts of justice now in this Province, and I hope there never will be another.
Halaman 230 - These observations were undoubtedly just ; but will they not now complain, and say that we have cut them off from all hope of redress from that quarter, for we have denied them a representation in that legislative body by whose laws they must be governed. While they are in this situation they never will be reconciled to government, nor will they submit to the terms of it from any other motive than fear, excited by a constant military armed force extended over them.
Halaman 41 - ... whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association ; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published in the Gazette ; to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the...
Halaman 122 - Duke was just come to town — His station despising, unaw'd by the place, He flies from his God to attend on his Grace. To the Court it was fitter to pay his devotion, Since God had no hand in his Lordship's promotion.
Halaman 30 - Is this the object for which I have been contending? said I to myself, for I rode along without any answer to this wretch. Are these the sentiments of such people, and how many of them are there in the country? Half the nation, for what I know; for half the nation are debtors, if not more, and these have been, in all countries, the sentiments of debtors.