Sketches of Border Adventures: In the Life and Times of Major Moses Van Campen, a Surviving Soldier of the RevolutionR.L. Underhill & Company, 1842 - 310 Seiten |
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Sketches of Border Adventures: In the Life and Times of Major Moses Van ... John Niles Hubbard Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted American anticipated appearance arms army arrived attack battle battle of Newtown began Bennett Boyd Brant brave British brought Butler called camp Campen Capt colonies command Creek danger Dansville death directed encamped enemy escape father favorable feelings fire Fishing Creek foes formed Fort Niagara frontier gave Genesee river George Grenville give ground Hammond hand hatchet head heart immediately inhabitants killed Lieut lived look miles militia mind Mohawk Niagara night Northumberland officer Oneida party of Indians passed Pennsylvania possession prepared present prisoners proceeded pursued received rifle river Salmon savage scalp scene scouts Seneca Lake Seneca nation Seneca tribe sent settlements settlers shot side soldiers soon spirit squaw Stamp Act struggle Sullivan supposed Susquehanna taken thought tion tomahawk took Tory tree troops utmost warriors watch woods Wyoming yell young Zebulon Butler
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 55 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free , if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending ; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us. They tell us,...
Seite 47 - The gentleman boasts of his bounties to America ! Are not these bounties intended finally for the benefit of this kingdom ? If they are not, he has misapplied the national treasures.
Seite 47 - I will be bold to affirm, that the profits to Great Britain from the trade of the colonies through all its branches, is two millions a year. This is the fund that carried you triumphantly through the last war. The estates that were rented at two thousand pounds a year, threescore years ago, are at three thousand at present. Those estates sold then from fifteen to eighteen years purchase; the same may now be sold for thirty.
Seite 42 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Seite 45 - But an internal tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives. The Stamp Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Seite 46 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.
Seite 44 - A. There are taxes on all estates real and personal; a poll tax; a tax on all offices, professions, trades, and businesses, according to their profits ; an excise on all wine, rum and other spirits; and a duty of ten pounds per head on all negroes imported, with some other duties.
Seite 167 - I begged of you to follow me in the fortunes of war, you was deaf to my cries — you spurned my entreaties! " Brother! you have merited death and shall have your deserts! When the rebels raised their hatchets to fight their good master, you sharpened your knife, you brightened your rifle and led on our foes to the fields of our fathers!