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Updated: May 16, 2025
John Adams tells us that one of the main points discussed at the opening of the Continental Congress, when they were framing the ultimatum which finally took the form of the Fourth Resolution was, whether the Congress should "recur to the law of nature" as determining the rights of America.
Could anything be more awful than to have to ask oneself some day in the future, awakening in the middle of the night perhaps, after rivers of blood have been shed, "Did I do right after all?" The reply to the ultimatum has not even yet arrived, and the absence of a reply is equivalent to a declaration of war.
It was more than she could stand, and when she joined her fiancé at the hotel the meeting was very different from the one he had so often pictured to himself. It was a stormy scene, intermixed with tender episodes, but she gave it as her ultimatum that the kissing must cease forthwith, and, in order to give a good reason for it, she insisted that they be married at once.
The Sardinian army to be placed on a peace-footing, the volunteers to be dismissed, an answer of "Yes" or "No" required within three days these were the terms of the Ultimatum. If the answer were not fully satisfactory His Majesty would resort to force.
The three had been talking of the ultimatum that Japan had sent that day to China, claiming a priority in many matters over European influences they were by no means sure whether it was a wrong or a benefit that had been done to their country.
It would be well that the King should send a written ultimatum that the Hollanders should sign the convention which we propose. If they don't agree, the world at least will see that it is not we who are in fault."
Was it their fault that the British Government had accepted an ultimatum before they were prepared to extend to their colonial subjects that protection to which they certainly had a lawful claim? Such questions the Colonists asked themselves and the Home Government.
Her eyes had encountered an envelope on the dresser mirror, and, as she tore the end of it, she felt a premonition of its contents. "How about some money on account?" questioned the writer. "Unless I get some by tomorrow, I want my rooms vacated." So the ultimatum had come. Mary Burton stood before the mirror for a moment and out of her body all the strength seemed to flow.
From these facts it is evident that the action of Congress was of no practical importance for us, for when, after this debate, the Sussex incident occurred when, moreover, it was a question of an unarmed ship Mr. Wilson was free to issue his ultimatum, and could also have broken off diplomatic relations, if we had refused to give way.
She has more reason to fight the South for burning that cotton, than us for not shipping it. To aid the South on this ground would be hypocrisy which the world would detect at once. Let her make her ultimatum, and there are enough generous minds in Europe that will counteract her in the balance.
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