 | Edmund Sears Morgan - 1976 - 114 σελίδες
...began, the second Congress reassured the mother country, in a statement drafted by Thomas Jefferson, "that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us." It would almost seem that independence came as an afterthought to the men who had taken up arms against... | |
 | Betsy McCaughey Ross - 1980 - 388 σελίδες
...warfare: 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...restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desparate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 σελίδες
...Jefferson's draft.] 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...subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.—Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any... | |
 | Peter David Garner Thomas - 1991 - 372 σελίδες
...undoubtedly attainable. Despite this threat, care was taken to disclaim any motive of independence. 'We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long...subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.'129 Those delegates anxious to tread the path of independence were aware that premature disclosure... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 σελίδες
...months before the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress protested that it did not wish "to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between American colonies and the mother country." To see in the conflict an attempt of a colonized nation,... | |
 | Herbert Aptheker - 1960 - 308 σελίδες
...foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. . . . We mean not to dissolve that union [in the Empire] which has so long and so happily subsisted between...has not yet driven us into that desperate measure. . . . In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right . . . for the protection... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 σελίδες
...the members avowed a determination "to die free men rather than to live slaves," but also asserted, "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us. ... We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 σελίδες
...live Slaves. 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...raised Armies with ambitious Designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing Independent States. We fight not for Glory or for Conquest. We exhibit... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 σελίδες
...preservation of [their] liberties." At the same time, they assured their supporters in Great Britain, "We mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us."23 A year later, however, they must "acquiesce in the Necessity" of declaring independence. Since... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - 2001 - 388 σελίδες
...quickly: "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 [with the King] which ... we sincerely wish to see restored." 102 This conceptual dissonance was cleared... | |
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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... 
