Carpenters' Hall, (Chestnut Street, Bet. 3rd and 4th,) and Its Historic Memories

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第 18 頁 - But if you are determined that your ministers shall wantonly sport with the rights of mankind—-if neither the voice of Justice, the dictates of the Law, the principles of the Constitution, or the suggestions of humanity, can restrain your
第 19 頁 - hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause; we must then tell you, that we will never submit to be hewers of wood, or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world.
第 24 頁 - the authority of the people only, now, in this public manner, in behalf of ourselves, and with the approbation, consent, and authority of our constituents, unanimously declare our willingness to concur in a vote of Congress declaring the United Colonies
第 14 頁 - Samuel Chase. Virginia.—Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton. North Carolina.—William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, Richard Caswell. South Carolina.—Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher
第 20 頁 - We do for ourselves and the inhabitants of the several colonies whom we represent, firmly agree and associate, under the sacred ties of virtue, honor and love of country.
第 16 頁 - is dissolved. Fleets and armies and the present state of things show that government is dissolved. Where are your landmarks? your boundaries of colonies? We are in a state of nature, sir,
第 16 頁 - the distinction between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
第 24 頁 - in ambition or in an impatience of lawful authority, but that we were driven to it in obedience to the first principles of nature, by the oppressions and cruelties of the aforesaid king and Parliament of Great Britain, as the only possible measure that was left us to preserve and establish our liberties and to transmit them inviolate to
第 21 頁 - from and utterly reject, any proposition, should such be made, that may cause, or lead to a separation from our Mother Country or a change in the form of
第 20 頁 - contingency. Above all things, we earnestly entreat you, with devotion of spirit, penitence of heart, and amendment of life, to humble yourselves and implore the favor of Almighty God; and we fervently beseech his Divine goodness to take you into his gracious protection.

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