 Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all ; and therefore ought to be the common property of all ; and he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy...  Life of Washington, v.3-4 - Page 433by Washington Irving - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Noah Brooks - 1900 - 384 pages
...an enemy to equality and justice, and ought to be swept from the face of the earth. In a word.lthey are determined to annihilate all debts public and...are easily effected by the means of unfunded paper money, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever. , /The numbers of these people may amount, in... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1787 - 446 pages
...ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.' In a word they are determined to annihilate all debts public and private and have agrarian Laws, which... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1901 - 440 pages
...ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.' In a word they are determined to annihilate all debts public and private and have agrarian Laws, which... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all," . They are determined to annihilate all debts, public and private, and have agrarian laws, . . . — To James Madison, 5 November, 1786. By a late act, it seems very desirous of a general convention... | |
 | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Archives - 1905 - 854 pages
...ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth." In a word they are determined to annihilate all debts public and private and have agrarian Laws, which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 628 pages
...ought to be the common property of off, and he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off...agrarian laws, which are easily effected by the means oi unfunded paper, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever." In reply to Colonel Henry Lee in... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 594 pages
...ought to be the common property of dm, and he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off...agrarian laws, which are easily effected by the means oi unfunded paper, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever." In reply to Colonel Henry Lee in... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1905 - 390 pages
...swept from the face of the earth." "They are determined," wrote Knox to Washington, October 23, 1786, " to annihilate all debts public and private, and have...are easily effected by the means of unfunded paper money, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever." 1 All this mad reasoning was in some degree... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 694 pages
...; and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy lo equity and justice, and ought to he swept from off the face of the earth." Again : "They...are easily effected by the means of unfunded paper money, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever." He adds: "The number of these people amount... | |
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