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accts America appear Armand's legion army arrived attention August British Captain Asgill circumstances command Commander-in-chief conduct consequence consideration considered corps Count de Rochambeau DEAR SIR disposition distresses enclosed endeavor enemy establishment evacuation event Excellency expect expense favor French give Haldimand happy HEAD QUARTERS HEAD-QUARTERS honor hope Indians JAMES MCHENRY justice land letter liberty Lord Cornwallis Lord Shelburne MAJOR-GENERAL March Marquis Marquis de Lafayette matter means measures ment mentioned military Mohawk River MOUNT VERNON nation necessary necessity NEWBURG non-commissioned officers obliged observations obtain occasion officers opinion orders peace Philadelphia pleasure posts present PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS prisoners proper proposed prospect purpose received regiments request resolution respecting River Rochambeau Secretary at War sentiments Sir Guy Carleton soldiers soon suffer thing tion treaty troops United Virginia Washington wish York
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Trang 339 - MR. PRESIDENT : The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and of presenting myself before them, to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country.
Trang 339 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union and the patronage of Heaven.
Trang 333 - ... to command, he can only again offer in their behalf his recommendations to their grateful country, and his prayers to the God of armies.
Trang 507 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Trang 347 - I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all; and this, my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers.
Trang 173 - ... the gratification of every wish so far as may be done consistently with the great duty I owe my country, and those powers we are bound to respect, you may freely command my services to the utmost extent of my abilities.
Trang 408 - Britain on their left, instead of throwing stumbling-blocks in their way, as they now do, should hold out lures for their trade and alliance ? What, when they get strength, which will be sooner .than most people conceive (from the emigration of foreigners, who will have no...
Trang 257 - I may even venture to say, to the existence, of the United States, as an independent power.
Trang 170 - I could wish he had as much credit for the rectitude of his heart, for as men see through different optics and are induced by the reflecting faculties of the mind to use different means to attain the same end, the author of the address should have...
Trang 345 - The disinclination of the individual States to yield competent powers to Congress for the Federal Government, their unreasonable jealousy of that body and of one another, and the disposition Which seems to pervade each, of being all-wise and all-powerful within itself, will, if there is not a change in the system, be our downfall as a nation.