 | William Belsham - 1795 - 496 pàgines
...their taking up arms. "WE are reduced," say they, " to the alternative of unconditional submission, or resistance by force ; the latter is our choice....and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 450 pàgines
...vengeance of administration can inflict them, the complicated calamities of fire, sword, and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional...FIND NOTHING SO DREADFUL AS VOLUNTARY SLAVERY.— Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pàgines
...enforce the claims of Great Britain are then enumerated ; after which the manifesto proceeds : " We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom, which we received from our... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 648 pàgines
...enforce the claims of Great Britain are then enumerated ; after which the manifesto proceeds. ' ' We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional...we have counted the cost of this contest, and find noCHAP. in. thing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, 1775. justice, and humanity forbid us tamely... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 654 pàgines
...enforce the claims of Great Britain are then enumerated; after which the manifesto proceeds. " We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional...the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force....the latter is our choice....we have counted the cost of this contest, and find noCHAP. HI.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 pàgines
...alternative of choosing unconditional submission to the tyranny of ministers, or resistance by force. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." About this time the continental congress unanimously appointed George Washington, esq. a native of... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pàgines
...of administration «an inflict them, the coru^iid calamities of fire, sword and famine. conditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The btter is our choice. We have counted the cobt of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 458 pàgines
...choosing unconditional submission to the tyrannv ..•; ministers, or resistance by force. We have counu 1 the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary shivery." great • Oeiu'ml Wanhin;ft vi rr-pm-d to the president of congress announcing Kin appointment,... | |
 | Richard Snowden - 1805 - 398 pàgines
...proceed thus, ."We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to tyranny, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice....and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1805 - 410 pàgines
...alternative of choosing unconditional submission to the tyranny of ministers, or resistance by force. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." About this time the continental congress unanimously appointed George Washington, esq. a native of... | |
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We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We. have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. 
