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Act passed addressed alluded appointed April Assembly Augustine Bahamas BOARD OF TRADE Brewton Bull Capt Charles-Town Cherokees Colony commission Commissioners for Trade committee of Council Copy Council of Safety dated desiring Drayton Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle enclosing extract French Protestants Georgia Governor of Carolina Governor of South-Carolina grant gun-powder Henry Laurens Heyward Indians instructions John Johnson July July 13 June Justice King land Letter signed Lord Carteret Lords Commissioners Lords proprietors Lordships Majesty Majesty's March Memorandum of letter memorial merchants negroes Nicholson officers order of Council papers persons petition Pinckney Plantations Popple present Present-Col proprietors of Carolina Province of Carolina Province of South-Carolina Purry quit rents Received Regiment relating representation river Robert Johnson Secretary sent Sept settling ships Spaniards Thomas Lowndes tion transmit Vide Prop Vide vol Whitehall Williamson
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 17 - Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access.
Seite 88 - ... naturalizing such foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any of His Majesty's colonies in America.
Seite 63 - Safety have ordered me to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 8th Instant and to return their thanks for your assiduity in treating with the Old Men and Head Warriors of the Catawba Indians. Your assurances that those people are hearty in our Interest, and your Hopes that forty or fifty of them will cheerfully enter into the service of the Colony...
Seite 78 - Petition and appeal (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) be and it is hereby referred to the Right...
Seite 20 - ... fosters an overweening vanity, and is blind to all merit except its own, stands in need of the correction of reason. History is false to her trust when she betrays the cause of truth, even under the influence of patriotic impulses. It is not true that all the virtue of the country was in the Whig camp, or that the Tories were a horde of ruffians. They were conservatives, and their error was in carrying to excess the sentiment of loyalty, which is founded in virtue. Their constancy embittered...
Seite 20 - It is not true that all the virtue of the country was in the Whig camp, or that the Tories were a horde of ruffians. They were conservatives, and their error was in carrying to excess the sentiment of loyalty, which is founded in virtue. Their constancy embittered the contest, but did not provoke it. Their cause deserved to fail; but their sufferings are entitled to respect. Prejudice has blackened their name, but history will speak of them as they were, with their failings and their virtues, as...
Seite 240 - TRUE STATE of the Case between the Inhabitants of South Carolina and the Lords Proprietors of that Province.
Seite 260 - Lorshlps have found, by Experience, that Bills of Credit have been of very ill Consequence in other Places, where they have been issued ; particularly in Carolina, where not only the Province, but the Merchants, have sustained great Losses thereby : For this Reason, if it were not out of Tenderness to those Persons into whose Hands the Bills, issued in Pennsylvania, may have passed, their Lordships would lay the aforementioned Acts before his Majesty to be repealed; and if any further Acts are passed...
Seite 58 - Colony, at the public expense; there to explain to the people at large, the nature of the unhappy public disputes between Great Britain and the American Colonies; to endeavor to settle all political disputes between the people; to quiet their minds; and to' force the necessity of a general union, in order to preserve themselves and their children from slavery.
Seite 10 - ... or the wildest enthusiasts. It is History that comes to the relief of conscience when perplexed by the conflict of opinion; and furnishes a guide for conduct and judgment, when reason is at fault. It is to the human family what experience is to the individual. Precedent and example furnish a clue for arriving at a decision when the mind is bewildered by doubt. They show the difference between the line to be pursued, and that to be avoided; between the way that leads to ruin, and that which conducts...