Historical Sketches of the Holston Valleys, Volume 1Kingsport Press, 1926 - 186 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abingdon American Indian Andrew Lewis Appalachian army Assembly attack Augusta battle beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains boundaries brave Bristol British camp meeting campaign Capt Captain century Church civil Colo Colonel William Christian colony command Creek Daniel Boone Declaration Dragging Canoe Dunmore's Dunmore's War election Evan Shelby expedition Fincastle County followed forces Fork Franklin frontier frontiersmen garrison George Rogers Clark Governor highlands Holston River Holston settlements Holston Valleys hundred ISAAC SHELBY James John Sevier Kentucky killed King King's Mountain Kingsport land Lee Highway liberty Logan Long Island Long Island Kingsport Lord Dunmore Loudon marched miles Mississippi mouth North Carolina offence party Patrick Henry peace person or persons pioneers Point Pleasant Presbyterians religion route Scotch-Irish settled settlers SKETCH southwestern Virginia Sullivan County SYCAMORE SHOALS tain Tenn territory thence tion Tipton town treaty tribes troops Unaka National Forest Watauga wilderness wounded
Passagens conhecidas
Página 120 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good.
Página 111 - Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Página 66 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 119 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of publick services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator or judge to be hereditary.
Página 112 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purpose of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Página 120 - That in all capital or criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty...
Página 119 - That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
Página 120 - ... the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members to be again eligible or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.
Página 19 - And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página 112 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...