 | United States. Continental Congress - 1823 - 644 sider
...¿our constitution..we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means; but your ministers (equal foes to British and American freedom)...therefore, we are compelled to rely for protection. Should victory declare in your favor, vet men trained to arms from their infancy, and animated by the... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - 1825 - 318 sider
...our constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means; but your ministers (equal foes to British and American freedom)...therefore, we are compelled to rely for protection. Should victory declare in your favour, yet men trained to arms from their infancy, and animated by... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - 1825 - 314 sider
...our constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means; but your ministers (equal foes to British and American freedom)...former oppressions an attempt to reduce us by the aword to a base and abject submission. On the sword, therefore, we are compelled to rely for protection.... | |
 | Charles Stewart Daveis - 1826 - 68 sider
...language of the foregoing farewell, supposed to be from the pen of the venerable JOHN JAY, " of this we are assured ; that our struggle will be glorious,...in death we shall find that freedom, which in life you forbid us to enjoy !" Suffer me to conduct you to yonder noble eminence, still exhibiting the rude... | |
 | 1827 - 540 sider
...our constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means; but your ministers, (equal foes to British and American freedom,)...therefore, we are compelled to rely for protection. Should victory declare in your favor, yet men, trained to arms from their infancy, and animated by... | |
 | 1857 - 668 sider
...our constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means ; but your ministers (equal foes to British and American freedom)...therefore, we are compelled to rely for protection. Should victory declare in your favor, yet men trained to arms from their infancy, and animated by the... | |
 | 1857 - 624 sider
...our constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means; but your ministers (equal foes to British and American freedom)...therefore, we are compelled to rely for protection. Should victory declare in your favor, yet men trained to arms from their infancy, and animated by the... | |
 | 1857 - 610 sider
...their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap nor easy conquest. en a small, but artful and enterprising minority of...community ; and according to the alternate triumphs you forbid us to enjoy. Let us now ask, what advantages are to attend our reduction ? The trade of... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1859 - 618 sider
...our constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means ; but your Y Y wo are compelled to rely for protection. Should victory declare in your favor, yet men trained to arms... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 sider
...our Constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means; but your ministers, equal foes to British and American freedom,...therefore, we are compelled to rely for protection. Should victory declare in your favor, yet men trained to arms from their infancy and animated by the... | |
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The great bulwarks of our constitution we have desired to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable means; but your ministers, (equal foes to British and American freedom,) have added to their former oppressions an attempt to reduce us, by the sword,... 
