The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution: John Jay; Francis Dana

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N. Hale and Gray & Bowen, 1830
 

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Página 170 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 263 - I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me the 4th instant, as also those which accompanied it.
Página 294 - SIR, I have received the letter, which your Excellency did me the honor of addressing to me by the hand of Mr.
Página 171 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Página 483 - ... and they shall be permitted to refresh and provide themselves, at reasonable rates, with victuals and all things needful for the sustenance of their persons or reparation of their ships, and...
Página 175 - America, they could not send any members to confer with his lordship in their private characters, but that, ever desirous of establishing peace on reasonable terms, they would send a committee of their body to ascertain what authority he had to treat with persons authorized by Congress, and what propositions he had to offer.
Página 53 - I shall not enter into an examination of the successive variations and augmentations of your demands on me for funds to meet your payments.
Página 178 - Your lordship may be assured, that when the king of Great Britain shall be seriously disposed to put an end to the unprovoked and cruel war waged against these United States, Congress will readily attend to such terms of peace, as may consist with the honor of independent nations, the interest of their constituents, and the sacred regard they mean to pay to treaties.
Página 91 - Sir, I have received the letter you did me the honor to write on the 17th of last month, by Mr.
Página 161 - Vergennes would, without his knowledge and consent, declare such sentiments, and offer such propositions, and that, too, in writing. I therefore considered M. Rayneval as speaking the sentiments of the minister, and I confess they alarmed me, especially as they seemed naturally to make a part of that system of policy which I believed induced him rather to postpone the acknowledgment of our independence by Britain to the conclusion of a general peace, than aid us in procuring it at present.

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