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... probably not be delivered up . TO EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia , July 23 , 1782 154 Recognition of Independence by the States General - Speculations concerning the views of the English Administration- ( The remain- der in cypher ...
... probably not be delivered up . TO EDMUND RANDOLPH . Philadelphia , July 23 , 1782 154 Recognition of Independence by the States General - Speculations concerning the views of the English Administration- ( The remain- der in cypher ...
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... probably be known at Richmond before this reaches you . We have yet heard nothing further of the auxiliary armament from France . However anxiously its ar- rival may be wished for , it is much to be feared we shall continue to be so ...
... probably be known at Richmond before this reaches you . We have yet heard nothing further of the auxiliary armament from France . However anxiously its ar- rival may be wished for , it is much to be feared we shall continue to be so ...
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... probably be concealed that such a motion has been made and supported , and the weight which our demands would derive from unanimity and decision must be lost . I flatter myself , however , that Congress will see the impro- priety of ...
... probably be concealed that such a motion has been made and supported , and the weight which our demands would derive from unanimity and decision must be lost . I flatter myself , however , that Congress will see the impro- priety of ...
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... probably choose to make Madrid rather than Versailles the seat of it . However unfavorable many of these par- ticulars may appear , it is the concurrent representa- tion of the above ministers that our disappointment of pecuniary ...
... probably choose to make Madrid rather than Versailles the seat of it . However unfavorable many of these par- ticulars may appear , it is the concurrent representa- tion of the above ministers that our disappointment of pecuniary ...
Side 72
... in drawing on her for money , excited no small astonish- ment , and probably gave an idea of our distress , which confirmed her hopes of concession on our part . 72 [ 1780 . CORRESPONDENCE . TO JOSEPH JONES Philadelphia, December 1780.
... in drawing on her for money , excited no small astonish- ment , and probably gave an idea of our distress , which confirmed her hopes of concession on our part . 72 [ 1780 . CORRESPONDENCE . TO JOSEPH JONES Philadelphia, December 1780.
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Side 26 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Side 23 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Side 378 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Side 23 - He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these states] refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Side 28 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Side 26 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Side 11 - Congress should declare that these United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
Side 23 - ... people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people...
Side 25 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty...