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John Adams (search for this): chapter 30
age in the war of debate, than calmly to sum up its conclusions. It was a beautiful trait in his character that he was free from envy; and had he kept silence, John Adams would have wanted the best witness to his greatness as the ablest advocate and defender of independence. A common object now riveted the two statesmen together endured. From the fulness of his own mind, without consulting one single book, Jefferson drafted the declaration, submitted it separately to Franklin and to John Adams, accepted from each of them one or two verbal, unimportant corrections, and on the twenty eighth of June reported it to congress, which now on the second of Jul; the vast majority, till within a few years or months, believed the English constitution the best that had ever existed; neither Franklin, nor Washington, nor John Adams, nor Jeffer- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. son, nor Jay, had ever expressed a preference for a republic. The voices that rose for independence, spoke also for all
Thomas Jefferson (search for this): chapter 30
ople would own as their guides. Of the committee appointed for that duty, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia had received the largest number of votes, and was in that mannto Williamsburg the prevalent freethinking of Englishmen of that century, and Jefferson had grown up in its atmosphere; he was not only a hater of priestcraft and sue two statesmen together in close bonds. I cannot find, that at that period, Jefferson had an enemy; by the general consent of Virginia, he already stood first amonred. From the fulness of his own mind, without consulting one single book, Jefferson drafted the declaration, submitted it separately to Franklin and to John Adamhe paper were closely scanned. In the indictment against George the Third, Jefferson had written: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violatingn; and therefore, the severe strictures on the use of the king's negative, so Jefferson wrote for the guidance of history, were disapproved by some southern gentleme
Peter (search for this): chapter 30
hap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. son, nor Jay, had ever expressed a preference for a republic. The voices that rose for independence, spoke also for alliances with kings. The sovereignty of George the Third was renounced, not because he was a king, but because he was deemed to be a tyrant. The insurgents, as they took up self-government, manifested no impatience at the recollection of having been ruled by a royal line; no eagerness to blot out memorials of their former state; they sent forth no Hugh Peter to recommend to the mother country the abolition of monarchy, which no one seems to have proposed or to have wished; in the moment of revolution in America, they did not counsel the English to undertake a revolution. The republic was to America a godsend; it came, though unsought, because society contained the elements of no other organization. Here, and, in that century, here only, was a people, which, by its education and large and long experience, was prepared to act as the depository
Jay (search for this): chapter 30
itself; they sought no general overthrow of all kings, no universal system of republics; nor did they cherish in their hearts a lurking hatred against princes. Loyalty to the house of Hanover had, for sixty years, been another name for the love of civil and religious liberty; the vast majority, till within a few years or months, believed the English constitution the best that had ever existed; neither Franklin, nor Washington, nor John Adams, nor Jeffer- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. son, nor Jay, had ever expressed a preference for a republic. The voices that rose for independence, spoke also for alliances with kings. The sovereignty of George the Third was renounced, not because he was a king, but because he was deemed to be a tyrant. The insurgents, as they took up self-government, manifested no impatience at the recollection of having been ruled by a royal line; no eagerness to blot out memorials of their former state; they sent forth no Hugh Peter to recommend to the mother co
1776 AD (search for this): chapter 30
he declaration of the United States. July 2—4, 1776. The resolution of congress changed the old ttle of himself, that his country, Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. as it went along with him, found not bound his aspirations, and he be- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. lieved more than he himself was awarstitution, which he still acknowl- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. edgedto he the best that the world ho prohibit or to restrain this ex- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. ecrable commerce. And that this assricken out; and the earnestness of Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. the denunciation lost its author no tish crown, and that all political Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. connection between them and the state me of the ascendent people of that Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. time, it was sure to make the circuit ngton, nor John Adams, nor Jeffer- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. son, nor Jay, had ever expressed a pre in the thirteen colonies now owed Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. primary allegiance to the dynasty of t[5 more...]
July 4th (search for this): chapter 30
s changed the old thir- Chap LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. teen British colonies into free and independentelf, that his country, Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. as it went along with him, found nothing but whspirations, and he be- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. lieved more than he himself was aware of. He wand more exact; and in the evening of the fourth day of July, New York still abstaining from the voteus: For protecting them, by Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. mock trial, from punishment for any murders westic insurrections amongst Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabiown, and that all political Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. connection between them and the state of Greahe ascendent people of that Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. time, it was sure to make the circuit of the nor John Adams, nor Jeffer- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. son, nor Jay, had ever expressed a preference thirteen colonies now owed Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. primary allegiance to the dynasty of the peop[4 more...]
June 28th (search for this): chapter 30
ery embrace; the nursling of his country, the offspring of his time, he set about the work of a practical statesman, and his measures grew so naturally out of previous law and the facts of the past, that they struck deep root and have endured. From the fulness of his own mind, without consulting one single book, Jefferson drafted the declaration, submitted it separately to Franklin and to John Adams, accepted from each of them one or two verbal, unimportant corrections, and on the twenty eighth of June reported it to congress, which now on the second of July, immediately after the resolution of independence, entered upon its consideration. During the remainder of that day and the two next, the language, the statements, and the principles of the paper were closely scanned. In the indictment against George the Third, Jefferson had written: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people
July 2nd (search for this): chapter 30
Chapter 70: The declaration of the United States. July 2—4, 1776. The resolution of congress changed the old thir- Chap LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. teen British colonies into free and independent states. It remained to set forth the reason so little of himself, that his country, Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. as it went along with him, found nothing but what it red not bound his aspirations, and he be- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. lieved more than he himself was aware of. He was an ideh constitution, which he still acknowl- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. edgedto he the best that the world had thus far seen. ghth of June reported it to congress, which now on the second of July, immediately after the resolution of independence, entmpt to prohibit or to restrain this ex- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. ecrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors en stricken out; and the earnestness of Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. the denunciation lost its author no friends. All oth
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