 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1889 - 368 halaman
...twenty-seventh of December, 1776, the very day after the brilliant dash upon the Hessians at Trenton, Congress " having maturely considered the present...wisdom, vigor and uprightness of General Washington," granted him the power as General of the United States to raise, organize and officer sixteen battalions... | |
 | Louis Clinton Hatch - 1904 - 250 halaman
...vigorous, decisive conduct of these being impossible to distant, numerous, and deliberative bodies : " This Congress, having maturely considered the present...of General Washington; do hereby " Resolve" that, unless the authority be sooner revoked, he have for six months certain extraordinary powers, including... | |
 | Emory Upton - 1904 - 538 halaman
...powers. This resolution, so fraught with danger to the future liberties of the States, reads as follows: This Congress, having maturely considered the present...vigor, and uprightness of General Washington, do hereby Rexolvr, That Cieneral Washington shall be, and he is hereby, vested with full, ample, and complete... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1906 - 330 halaman
...vigorous, decisive conduct of these, being impossible to distant, numerous, and deliberative bodies : This Congress, having maturely considered the present...crisis ; and having perfect reliance on the wisdom, vigour, and uprightness of General Washington, do, hereby, Resolve, That General Washington shall be,... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 halaman
...court-martialed, suspended for a year, and later dismissed from the army. 124 Use of Dictatorial Powers. " This Congress, having maturely considered the present...wisdom, vigor, and uprightness of General Washington," resolved to grant him for six months practically unlimited powers in the control of the army and the... | |
 | Henry Belcher - 1911 - 440 halaman
...by ballot, and debated long and warmly about hogsheads of rum for the troops, now announced : That having maturely considered the present crisis, and having perfect reliance on the wisdom, vigour, and uprightness of General Washington, Congress had resolved to invest him with full and ample... | |
 | Frederic Louis Huidekoper - 1915 - 806 halaman
...battalions voted on September 16th (page 560, footnote 45) were thus augmented by twenty-two. 56. " This Congress, having maturely considered the present...having perfect reliance on the wisdom, vigor, and uprightedness of General Washington, do hereby " Kesoh-c, That General Washington shall be, and he... | |
 | Emory Upton, United States. War Department - 1917 - 546 halaman
...reads as follows: This Congress, having maturely considered the present crisis, and Laving i>erfect reliance on the wisdom, vigor, and uprightness of General Washington, do hereby Retolvr, That General 'Washington shall be, and he is hereby, vested with fulL ample, and complete... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1918 - 1162 halaman
...of Congress), December 2, 1776, p. 1001.] RESOLUTION BESTOWING DICTATORIAL POWERS UPON WASHINGTON. This Congress, having maturely considered the present...crisis; and having perfect reliance on the wisdom, vigour, and uprightness of Geaeral Washington, do, hereby, Resolve, That General Washington shall be,... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1918 - 1178 halaman
...of Congress), December 2, 1776, p. 1001.] RESOLUTION BESTOWING DICTATOBIAL POWEBS UPON WASHINGTON. This Congress, having maturely considered the present...crisis; and having perfect reliance on the wisdom, vigour, and uprightness of General Washington, do, hereby, Resolve, That General Washington shall be,... | |
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Congress, having maturely considered the present crisis, and having perfect reliance on the wisdom, vigour, and uprightness of General Washington, do hereby "Resolve, That General Washington shall be, and he is hereby vested with full, ample, and complete... 
