Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical SocietyThe Society, 1924 |
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... North will be abated , and the interests of the two sections of the country will be further identified . Frederick went to a dinner yesterday given by Mr. Gourdin , and met Mr. Pringle and several of the first gentlemen here . They ...
... North will be abated , and the interests of the two sections of the country will be further identified . Frederick went to a dinner yesterday given by Mr. Gourdin , and met Mr. Pringle and several of the first gentlemen here . They ...
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... North Carolina , discovered in the Public Records Office in London , a letter from Levi Allen to William Pitt , and thinking it of historical interest , as Vermont was at that time a republic , sent a copy to the Massachusetts ...
... North Carolina , discovered in the Public Records Office in London , a letter from Levi Allen to William Pitt , and thinking it of historical interest , as Vermont was at that time a republic , sent a copy to the Massachusetts ...
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... North- ern New York and Vermont into a new Province and make him governor . Levi writes , in a letter to Ira , May 3 , 1789 : I called on Col. Skene , our first governor , and complimented him by the title of governor . He received me ...
... North- ern New York and Vermont into a new Province and make him governor . Levi writes , in a letter to Ira , May 3 , 1789 : I called on Col. Skene , our first governor , and complimented him by the title of governor . He received me ...
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... north parts of America , etc. , but no contract is ever obtained here without able friends ; and not only so , but they must have interest in the bus- iness . A member of Parliament must be concerned in the matter . The Prime Minister ...
... north parts of America , etc. , but no contract is ever obtained here without able friends ; and not only so , but they must have interest in the bus- iness . A member of Parliament must be concerned in the matter . The Prime Minister ...
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... North and South but many Americans had not appre- ciated the excellence of the armies , and the astonishing strides in strategy and tactics , of the Civil War . There was a natural reason for this . Among Americans there had been ...
... North and South but many Americans had not appre- ciated the excellence of the armies , and the astonishing strides in strategy and tactics , of the Civil War . There was a natural reason for this . Among Americans there had been ...
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Page 380 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 388 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 52 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 40 - A narrative and impartial discovery of the horrid Popish plot, carried on for burning and destroying the cities of London and Westminster, with their suburbs : setting forth the several...
Page 183 - Certain Conditions or Concessions, Agreed upon by William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and those who are the adventurers and purchasers in the same province the Eleventh of July, one thousand six hundred and eighty-one.
Page 139 - Our anxiety arising from the licentious and open resistance to the laws in the western counties of Pennsylvania has been increased by the proceedings of certain self-created societies relative to the laws and administration of the Government; proceedings, in our apprehension, founded in political error, calculated, if not intended, to disorganize our Government, and which, by inspiring delusive hopes of support, have been influential in misleading our fellow-citizens in the scene of insurrection.
Page 151 - Government has been just and impartial to foreign nations, that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper, and that they have been fairly executed...
Page 390 - No receding by the Executive of the United States, on the slavery question, from the position assumed thereon in the late annual message to Congress, and in preceding documents. 3. No cessation of hostilities short of an end of the war and the disbanding of all forces hostile to the government.
Page 52 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Page 178 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.