| John Lendrum - 1836 - 206 pagina’s
...are great; and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. We fight not for glory or conquest ; we exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude... | |
| Carlo Botta - 1837 - 508 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
| Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 230 pagina’s
...fellow subjects in the empire. Necessity has not driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...Great Britain, and establishing independent states," 138. In their letter to the Six nations of Indians, they use a term peculiarly appropriate to a declaration... | |
| Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 pagina’s
...fellow subjects in the empire. Necessity has not driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...Great Britain, and establishing independent states," 138. In December, 1775, they disavow any allegiance to parliament, but avow it to be due to the king;... | |
| L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offence. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
| Carlo Botta - 1840 - 520 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
| William Jay - 1842 - 116 pagina’s
...which we sincerly wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure : we have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain and establishing independant states." But the pertinacity of the British ministry prevented the colonists from laying... | |
| Henry Sherman - 1843 - 302 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offence. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
| Carlo Botta - 1845 - 508 pagina’s
...sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
| George Cone Beckwith, American Peace Society - 1845 - 480 pagina’s
...which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure ; we have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...Great Britain and establishing independent states." But the pertinacity of the British ministry prevented the colonists from laying down their arms, and... | |
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