Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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¹This accounts be paid Adjourned America artillery Benjamin Benjamin Harrison Board of Treasury Brigadier brigantine Britain Broadside Captain Charles Thomson cloathing Colonies command commissary commissioners Committee of Treasury Continental Congress copy council of safety day referred December Declaration delegates deputy pay master directed dollars be advanced empowered enemy expences folio France George George Wythe gress Indians inlist James Jersey John Dunlap Joseph Trumbull laid before Congress letter Lieutenant Marine Committee Maryland Mease members chosen militia Moses Hazen North Carolina northern army November o'Clock to Morrow October officers Ordered Papers pay master persons petition Philadelphia poned printed in Writings prisoners proper quarter master read:¹ regiment requested resolution Resolved safety of Pensylvania Samuel Schuyler sent ships soldiers sundry supplied taken into consideration Thomas Thomas McKean Treasury reported troops Trumbull United vessels Virginia vote waggons Whereupon William Wythe York
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Page 1094 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 1098 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Page 1093 - The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it.
Page 1096 - He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Page 1097 - ... interrupt our connection and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity^ and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, re-established them in power.
Page 1093 - The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with still haunted the minds of many. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offense.
Page 1087 - Congress should declare that these United Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
Page 1093 - As the sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also, I will state the form of the Declaration as originally reported.
Page 1117 - An Oration in Memory of General Montgomery, and of the Officers and Soldiers -who fell with him, December 31, 1775, before Quebec; drawn up (and delivered February iqth, 7776). At the Desire of the Honorable Continental Congress.
Page 1095 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He...