 | 1855 - 846 pages
...take the most cflectual measures for forming foreign alliances. ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...the respective Colonies for their consideration and approval. These were all parts of the same great measure, (independence.) and all were to stand or... | |
 | Peter Force - 1855 - 80 pages
...dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...the respective Colonies for their consideration and approval. These were all parts of the same great measure, c (independence,) and all were to stand or... | |
 | 1888 - 928 pages
...That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. " That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies, for their consideration and approbation." In these trying times the two greatest colonies, Virginia and Massachusetts, had been wont to go hand... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 pages
...that it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances ; and that a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." The resolutions were seconded by John Adams; and "the members were enjoined to attend punctually the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 pages
...that it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances; and that a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." The resolutions were seconded by John Adams; and "the members were enjoined to attend punctually the... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 pages
...that it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances; and that a plan of confederation be prepared, and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." The resolutions were seconded by John Adams; and "the members were enjoined to attend punctually the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1868 - 720 pages
...Independence, early in June, was not only for Independence, b'ut farther — for " a plan of Confederation, to be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation."! The plan for a Confederation of separate Independent Sovereign States, was moved in the very resolution... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 408 pages
..."That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. "That a plan of confederation be prepared, and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." They were seconded by John Adams of Massachusetts. The first discussion of them showed, that, though... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pages
...That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. " That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." John Adams seconded the resolutions. But owing " to some other business," it was agreed that the members... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1875 - 522 pages
...Congress, "That these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent States and that a plan of Confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." This resolution was adopted on the llth of June. Two committees were appointed under it, one to prepare... | |
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... independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown ; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. " That it is expedient forthwith to take the... 
