Journal of the General Assembly of South Carolina, September 17, 1776-October 20, 1776Historical commission of South Carolina, 1909 - 174 Seiten |
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1776 The House according to adjournment adjourned till To-morrow adjournment Read afterwards delivered amended and agreed appointed Assembly ballot Brigantine Comet Captain Charles Thomson Charles Town Charles-Town Clause Clerk Clerk's Table Colonel Gervais Colonel Pinckney Commissioners Committee Continental Congress Continental Establishment Council Mr Speaker District Ditto Edward Edward Fenwick Edward Rutledge elected Esquire Expence Fenwick followeth Great-Britain Honourable Mr Heyward House adjourned House met according impowered Inhabitants inlisted John Rutledge Josiah Smith Journal of yesterday's Junior Legislative Council Ordered Letter Message be ingrossed Militia officers Ordered That Colonel Parish of St Persons Petition Petitioner Place and afterwards Pounds Currency Privy Council Ralph Izard read a Second Read the Journal read the Report recommend referred Regiment Report be taken Resolved Roger Smith sent September South Carolina Speaker and Gentlemen Speaker do sign Stuart taken into Consideration thereof Thomas Thomas Heyward Thomas Lynch Treasury United Colonies Vessels yesterday's Proceedings
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Seite 26 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Seite 27 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 28 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 26 - ... under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
Seite 139 - ... to the House ; and he read the Report in his place ; and afterwards delivered it in at the clerk's table : Where the same was read ; and is as followeth ; viz.
Seite 28 - We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.
Seite 105 - I do swear (or affirm) that I will, to the utmost of my power, support, maintain and defend the said United States against the said King George...
Seite 122 - House ; and he read the report in his place, and afterwards delivered it in at the clerk's table, where the same was read, and is as followeth, viz : Resolved, as ike opinion of this committee, That the said memorial is reasonable.
Seite 26 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Seite 29 - Resolved, That copies of the Declaration be sent to the several assemblies, conventions, and committees, or councils of safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continental troops : that it be proclaimed in each of the United States, and at the head of the army.