A Centenary Study, Upper Canada: A Paper Read Before the Lundy's Lane Historical SocietyTribune print, 1892 - 26 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 10 - Though the oppressive measures of the British parliament and administration have compelled us to resist their violence by force of arms, yet we strictly enjoin you, that you, in behalf of this colony, dissent from and utterly reject any propositions, should such be made, that may cause or lead to a separation from our mother country, or a change of the form of this government.
Σελίδα 11 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow -subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Σελίδα 11 - We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery! Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
Σελίδα 10 - ... to agree upon, and recommend such measures as you shall judge to afford the best prospect of obtaining redress of American grievances, and restoring that union and harmony between Great Britain and the colonies, so essential to the welfare and happiness of both countries.
Σελίδα 10 - They were committees from twelve Colonies, deputed to consult on measures of conciliation, with no means of resistance to oppression beyond a voluntary agreement for the suspension of importations from Great Britain. They formed no confederacy. They were not an executive government. They were not even a legislative body.
Σελίδα 12 - It appearing in the course of these debates, that the colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not yet matured for falling from the parent stem, but that they were fast advancing to that state...
Σελίδα 16 - ... leads to the conclusion that the number of our countrymen who wished to continue their connection with the mother country was very large. In nearly every Loyalist letter or other paper which I have examined, and in which the subject is mentioned, it is either assumed or stated in terms, that the loyal were the majority ; and this opinion, I am satisfied, was very generally entertained by those who professed to have a knowledge of public sentiment. That the adherents of the croAvn were mistaken,...
Σελίδα 6 - Millions in England and Scotland think it unrighteous, impolitic, and ruinous to make war upon us ; and a minister, though he may have a marble heart, will proceed with a desponding spirit. London has bound her members under their hands to assist us ; Bristol has chosen two known friends of America ; many of the most virtuous of the nobility and gentry are for us, and among them a St. Asaph, a Camden, and a Chatham ; the best bishop that adorns the bench, as great a judge as the nation can boast,...
Σελίδα 6 - I urged, in conversation with several gentlemen of great respectability, firm Whigs, and my intimate friends, the importance, and even the necessity, of a declaration of independence on the part of the colonies, and alleged for this measure the very same arguments which afterward were generally considered as decisive, but found them disposed to give me and my arguments a hostile and contemptuous, instead of a cordial reception. Yet, at this time, all the resentment and enthusiasm awakened by the...
Σελίδα 24 - ... the national life of their connection with it. The true spirit of the Loyali-sts of America was never exhibited with greater force and brilliancy than during the war of 1812 — 1815.