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February, 1775 AD (search for this): chapter 22
Chapter 21: The spirit of New England. February, 1775. on the day on which the king received the address Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. of parliament, the members of the second provincial congress of Massachusetts, about two hundred and fourteen in number, appointed eleven men as their committee of safety, charged to resist every attempt at executing the acts of parliament. For this purpose they were empowered to take possession of the warlike stores of the province, to make returns of the militia and minute men, and to muster so many of the militia as they should judge necessary. General officers were appointed to command the force that should be so assembled. First of those who accepted the trust was Artemas Ward, a soldier of some experience in the French war. Next him as brigadier, stood Seth Pomeroy, the still older veteran, who had served at the siege of Louisburg. Resistance to tyranny, thus the congress addressed the inhabitants of the Massachusetts Bay, becomes the
February (search for this): chapter 22
he king received the address Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. of parliament, the members of the second provinfor the constitutional army. Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. They declined to levy taxes in form; but tht doubting that the power of Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. Great Britain would trample down, repress, and overn their numerous slaves, Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. and defend themselves against the Indians; thatington, and Locke, of nature Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. and eternal reason. The people are in their administration of the busy, Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. intriguing, enterprising Shirley, sent an answeauthority for the defence of Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. Massachusetts. Virginia and the Carolinas are ose was made before the set- Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. tlement of the colonies, and the declaratory acthe privileges of millions of Chap. XXI.} 1775 Feb. Americans should depend upon the discretion of pation and lawless violence, Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. is not rebellion by the law of God or the land.
1688 AD (search for this): chapter 22
d false, right and wrong, virtue and vice. To the sense of this difference the friends of mankind appeal. That all men by nature are equal; that kings have but a delegated authority which the people may resume, are the revolution principles of 1688, are the principles of Aristotle and Plato, of Livy and Cicero, of Sydney, Harrington, and Locke, of nature Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. and eternal reason. The people are in their nature so gentle, that there never was a government in which thousapeople, and established it by their own authority for the defence of Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. Massachusetts. Virginia and the Carolinas are preparing. The unanimity in congress can hardly be paralleled. The mighty questions of the revolution of 1688 were determined in the convention of parliament by small majorities of two or three, and four or five only; the almost unanimity in your assemblies and especially in the continental congress, are providential dispensations in our favor, the cleare
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