... Governor Johnston's [!] Speech on American Affairs: On the Address in Answer to the King's Speech. 1776 ...Priv. print., 1885 - 30 strani |
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Stran 20 - ... the attack of the gallant Howe leading on the best troops in the world, with an excellent train of artillery, and twice repulsing those very troops who had often chased the chosen battalions of France, and at last retiring for want of ammunition, but in so respectable a manner that they were not even pursued— who can reflect on such scenes, and not adore the Constitution of Government which could breed such men!
Stran 6 - America would have discerned the traitorous views of their leaders, and have been convinced that to be a subject of Great Britain, with all its consequences, is to be the freest member of any civil society in the known world.
Stran 20 - To a mind who loves to contemplate the glorious spirit of freedom, no spectacle can be more affecting than the action at Bunker's Hill. To see an irregular peasantry, commanded by a physician, inferior in number, opposed by every circumstance of cannon and bombs that could terrify timid minds, calmly...
Stran 19 - I maintain that the sense of the best and wisest men in this country are on the side of the Americans; that three to one in Ireland are on their side; that the soldiers and sailors feel an unwillingness to the service; that you never will find the same exertions of spirit in this as in other wars. I speak it to the credit of the fleet and army: they do not like to butcher men whom the greatest characters in this country consider as contending in the glorious cause of preserving those institutions...
Stran 16 - ... of the empire. Yet we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity, and feel no controul from him as a constituent. The most learned writer on government has defined civil and political liberty to consist in a perfect security as to a man's rights: After the...
Stran 16 - I call unintellible jargon. Instead of running the different privileges belonging to the various parts of the empire into one common mass of power, gentlemen should consider that the very first principles of good government in this wide-extended dominion, consist in subdividing the empire into many parts, and giving to each individual an immediate interest, that the community to which he belongs should be well regulated. This is the principle upon which our ancestors established those different colonies...
Stran 10 - All their knowledge seems to have been drawn from one source, that of Governor Hutchinson. The .'civil war now raging in America seems, step by step, to have been carried on by his advice. Whoever reads his letters, lately published in America, sees every measure pursued by administration to have been antecedently pointed out by this gentleman in. his confidential correspondence, until his sentiments seem dictated at last more by revenge and disappointment than any other principle...
Stran 20 - Siege of Boston," quotes from a speech of Mr. Johnstone in the House of Commons, Oct. 30th, 1775. " To a mind who loves to contemplate the glorious spirit of freedom, no spectacle can be more affecting than the action at Bunker's Hill. To see an irregular peasantry, commanded by a physician,* inferior in...
Stran 11 - My system, on the contrary) is for preserving them sacred and inviolate, according to their several antient institutions, the variety of which forms the harmony and beauty of the whole. There is no middle institution, as in this country,, to balance between the people and the crown: the assemblies are their only barrier; they are, therefore, the favourite institution of the people...
Stran 24 - ... system in the exchange of all commodities was established within your own dominion, which might last beyond the views of human calculation, if properly conducted. This is the great purpose to which I look up to America as a naval and as a commercial power; how often have I indulged myself in these thoughts, unable to see the end of our glory from the same causes which have destroyed other states, little dreaming that one infatuated minister could tempt, seduce, and persuade a whole nation to...