 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1896 - 830 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. W'e have not raised Armies with the ambitious Designs of Separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent States." Our Petition... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1896 - 850 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 have not raised Armies with the ambitious Designs of Separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent States." Our Petition... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 696 pagina’s
...Congress had put forth a declaration of the causes of the war (July 6, 1775), but expressly added: "We have not raised armies with ambitious designs...separating from Great Britain and establishing independent states."483 While in camp at Cambridge Washington learned that Carleton, the commander of the British... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 464 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Grady - 1899 - 488 pagina’s
...actual or threatened, on their chartered rights. " We have not raised armies," they declared, " vith ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain...establishing independent States. We fight not for glory or conquest. * * * We shall lay them (arms) down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors,... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 pagina’s
...Dickinson, John (American, 1732-1808.) Peroration of the Declaration on Taking Up Arms In 1775 — We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pagina’s
...Dickinson, John (American, 1732-1808.) Peroration of the Declaration on Taking Up Arms in 177B — We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of...attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 692 pagina’s
...Designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing Independent States. We fight not for Cilory or for Conquest. We exhibit to Mankind the remarkable...attacked by unprovoked Enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of Offence. They boast of their Privileges and Civilization, and yet proffer no milder... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - 1902 - 708 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - 1902 - 704 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...Great Britain, and establishing independent states. We 1ight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked... | |
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... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we 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... 
