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Randolph's address at the funeral of Pendleton, in Va. Gazette for 2 Nov. 1803, and cited by Grigsby, Va. Conv. of 1776, 203, 204. S. Lit. Messenger for 1842; thence given in Campbell, Hist. Va. 647, 648. Works of John Adams, iv. 201. 4 Am. Arch. vi. 462. 4 Am. Arch. vi. 1524. Works of John Adams, ix. 387. John Adams's pamphlet is given in his Works, iv. 189-200. The pamphlet is given in 4 Am.
I did not hesitate to set down at breakfast my dish of tea not half drank, go for my hat and stick that lay in the corner of the room, turn my back to the house insalutato hospite, and walk away to London without uttering a syllable. In a marginal note on Piozzi Letters, i. 338, he says he left Streatham on June 4, 1776.
Taking the whole Declaration together, and reading it in the light of the political literature which was put forth on both sides of the water between the years 1764 and 1776, which is too voluminous to be referred to here specifically, it seems to be necessary to conclude that the views of the American statesmen of the period concerning the nature of the connection between Great Britain and the Colonies, in its details, were these.
"The several foregoing demands against forfeited estates arose after the 9th day of July, 1776, and are expressly precluded by the 42d section of an act passed the 12th of May, 1784, entitled An act for the speedy sale of the confiscated and forfeited estates within this state, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
It could only be done by degrees; to wit, the act of 1776, c. 2. exempted dissenters from contributions to the Church, and left the Church clergy to be supported by voluntary contributions of their own sect; was continued from year to year, and made perpetual 1779, c. 36.
Soon after his release, Congress voted him a colonel's commission, with orders to raise a regiment. The regiment reported for service at Morristown, New Jersey, in the winter of 1776. Five hundred of the best riflemen were selected from the various regiments, and put under the command of Colonel Morgan. He was well fitted to be the leader of this celebrated corps of sharpshooters.
Think of the women, of the sweet children who listened for the footsteps of the dead who waited through the sad and desolate years for the dear ones who never came. The soldiers of 1776 did not march away with music and banners. They went in silence, looked at and gazed after by eyes filled with tears.
In a letter which he wrote to a friend at the time when these honors were beginning to be showered upon him, he said: "The pride of man is very differently gratified; and had his Majesty sent me a marshal's staff I think I should scarce have been so proud of it as I am of your esteem." In 1776 delegates from all the colonies met in Philadelphia.
Try to recollect and put down as much as you retain; you perhaps may have kept what I have dropped. The lines for which I am at a loss are something of rerum civilium sivè naturalium. It was a sorry trick to lose it; help me if you can. I am, Sir, 'Your most humble servant, 'June 22, 1776. 'The gout grows better but slowly .
In addition to the foregoing, by way of elucidation, it is to be understood by you, that so early as from the latter part of the year 1776, I was always attached to a commanding general; and, in consequence, my knowledge of the officers and their merits was more general than that of almost any other in service.
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