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Page 27 - Do you think Americans will strip women and children, and take the bread out of their mouths ? My countrymen never make war upon the innocent. It was to protect our own wives and children that we
Page 28 - whence the savages are supplied with arms and ammunition to murder us. We do not war against Frenchmen. The King of France, your former master, is our ally. His ships and soldiers are fighting for the Americans. The French are our
Page 27 - never make war upon the innocent. It was to protect our own wives and children that we have penetrated this wilderness to subdue these British posts, from
Page 43 - he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention which framed the first Constitution for
Page 58 - one small room, five closets for servants, and a cellar. The commissary's house
Page 145 - buys and sells Exchange on the principal cities of the United States;
Page 28 - now please to inform all your citizens for me that they are quite at liberty to conduct themselves as usual, and dismiss all apprehensions of alarm. We are your friends, and
Page 57 - two feet two inches thick, and pierced with loop-holes at regular distances, and
Page 80 - held the office of Justice of the Peace for a long term of years, and was
Page 142 - in the Supreme Court of the State, and in the United States District and Circuit Courts.