 | Robert Sears - 1876 - 664 sider
...whatsoever, other than the general assembly as aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional, and unjust, and has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." The resolution was adopted, on which the governor dissolved the chamber. When election day arrived,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 sider
...impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatsoever, other than the General...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." These resolutions, so spontaneous and so bold, rilled the members with astonishment. Had a thunderbolt... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 sider
...seem to us ! " Every attempt to invest such power [of taxation] in any person or persons whatever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British and American freedom." When the reading was finished, Jefferson heard his friend utter the opening... | |
 | Robert Templeman Craighill - 1880 - 378 sider
...being thus governed by their own assembly, in the article of their taxes and internal police, and that the same hath never been forfeited, or any other way...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." After Mr. Henry's death, the above resolutions were found among his papers, in his own hand-writing,... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1880 - 434 sider
...declaring that the right to tax the colonies rested solely with the representatives of the colonists, "and that every attempt to vest such power in any...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." Delegates from nine colonies met at New York in October, 1765, and prepared a Declaration of Rights... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - 1880 - 576 sider
...whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional, and unjust, and has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." (Prior Documents, etc., pp. 6, 7.) These resolutions were introduced by Patrick Henry, in an eloquent... | |
 | 1885 - 686 sider
...absence of Patrick Henry) was as follows: "Resolved, That his majesty's liege people of this most ancient colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." The full text of the five resolutions is given in Wirt's "Life of Patrick Henry," pp. 74, 75. Bryant's... | |
 | 1885 - 724 sider
...of Patrick Henry) was as follows : "Resolved, That his majesty's liege people of this most ancient colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." The full text of the five resolutions is given in Wirt's "Life of Patrick Henry," pp. 74, 75. Bryant's... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 sider
...imposition upon the inhabitants of this Colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatsoever, other than the General...to destroy British, as well as American, freedom." Notwithstanding the strong opposition made to these resolutions they were actually passed, and became... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1887 - 434 sider
...any other way given up, but hath been constantly recognized by the kings and people of Great Britain. and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom. " 6. Resolved, That his majesty's liege people, the inhabitants of this colony, are not bound to yield... | |
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Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the... 
