War and Peace: The Evils of the First, and a Plan for Preserving the LastWiley and Putnam, 1842 - 101 pages |
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Page 46 - We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully and zealously endeavor to support and maintain.
Page 46 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that 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 them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent states.
Page 99 - ... nation shall not lift up sword against nation ; neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 89 - ... they heartily concur with the memorialists in recommending a reference to a third power of all such controversies as can safely be confided to any tribunal unknown to the constitution of our own country. Such a practice will be followed by other powers, already inclined, as we have seen, to avoid war, and will soon grow up into the customary law of civilized nations.
Page 47 - I assured him, that having more than once travelled almost from one end of the continent to the other, and kept a great variety of company, eating, drinking, and conversing with them freely, I never had heard in any conversation from any person, drunk or sober, the least expression of a wish, for a separation, or hint that such a thing would be advantageous to America.
Page 4 - He who comes to preach deliverance to the captive, and the opening of the prison doors to them that are bound, has given it the death-blow.
Page 47 - For my own part there was not a moment during the Revolution when I would not have given everything I possessed for a restoration to the state of things before the contest began, provided we could have had a sufficient security for its continuance.
Page 67 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 95 - expressive language of scripture, our citizens 'would each " sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with none to make him afraid," and our peaceful and happy republic would be an example to all lands.
Page 46 - be taken of all such cannon and stores, in order " that they may be safely returned, when the " restoration of the former harmony between " Great Britain and her colonies, so ardently " wished for by the latter, shall render it prudent " and consistent with the overruling law of self