The Old South Leaflets: Annual ser

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Old South Meeting House., 1889
 

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Página 2 - and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the Military
Página 7 - their exercise, the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has [suffered]
Página 8 - [ffe has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property. 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 who never offended him, captivating and carrying thtm into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in
Página 9 - The large pension granted by K. Edward the 6. to Sebastian Cabota, constituting him grand Pilot of England. EDward the sixt by the grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, to all Christian people to whom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting. Know yee that we, in consideration of the good and acceptable seruice
Página 18 - 6. The law is an expression of the will of the community. All citizens have a right to concur, either personally or by their representatives, in its formation. It should be the same to all, whether it protects or punishes ; and all being equal in its sight, are equally eligible to honours, places, and
Página 8 - waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying thtm into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable
Página 18 - 4. Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable
Página 6 - 3 in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world [for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood*]. He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has refused
Página 18 - 8. The law ought to impose no other penalties than such as are absolutely and evidently necessary ; and no one ought to be punished but in virtue of a law promulgated before the offence, and legally applied. 9. Every man being presumed innocent until he has been
Página 18 - 12. A public force being necessary to give security to the rights of men and citizens, that force is instituted for the benefit of the community, and not for the particular benefit of the persons to whom it is intrusted. 13. A common contribution being necessary for the support of the public force, and

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