| John Trumbull - Painters - 1841 - 530 pages
...freedom, safety, and inde^pendeuce; on which happy event we sincerely join you in congratulations. Having defended the standard of liberty in this new...your virtues will not terminate with your military command,—it will continue to animate remotest ages. We feel with you, our obligations to the army... | |
| David Ridgely - Annapolis (Md.) - 1841 - 302 pages
...freedom, safety, and independence; on which happy event we sincerely join in your congratulations. 'Having defended the standard of liberty in this new...great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens—but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, it will... | |
| David Ridgely - Annapolis (Md.) - 1841 - 300 pages
...freedom, safety, and independence ; on which happy event we sincerely join in your congratulations. 'Having defended the standard of liberty in this new...great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens — but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, it... | |
| George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...Congress, to the Speech made by General Washington, on his resigning his Commission, Pccember 23, 1783. " Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world, having taught a lesson to those who inflict and to those who feel oppression, you retire from the great field of action with... | |
| George Watterston - Washington (D.C.) - 1842 - 254 pages
...which he remarked: ''Having defended the standard of liberty in the new world; having taught a lesson to those who inflict, and to those who feel oppression,...great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens; but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, it will... | |
| Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...safety, freedom and independence ; on which happy event we sincerely join you in congratulations. • • "Having defended the standard of liberty in this new...great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens ; but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command ; it... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1845 - 250 pages
...commission to the President, who, when he had received it, answered him in the name of Congress, and said, " Having defended the standard of liberty in this new-...great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens ; but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command ; it... | |
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1846 - 396 pages
...in freedom, safety, and independence; on which happy event we sincerely join you in congratulations. Having defended the standard of liberty in this new...great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citiy.uns; but the glory of your virtues will hot terminate with your military command; it will... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1846 - 250 pages
...commission to the President, who, when he had received it, answered him in the name of Congress, and said, " Having defended the standard of liberty in this new...great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens ; but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command ; it... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 510 pages
...fellow-citizens, enabled them to display their martial genius, and transmit their fame to posterity : having defended the standard of liberty in this new...inflict and to those who feel oppression, you retire with the blessings of your country ; but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military... | |
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