 | Joseph Seawell Jones - North Carolina - 1834 - 372 pages
...ourselves a free and independent people; — are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and selfgoverning association, under the control of no power, other...cooperation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor. <r'FJiat as we acknowledge the existence and control of no law nor legal officer, civil or military,... | |
 | Joseph Seawell Jones - North Carolina - 1834 - 370 pages
...and institutions. And thus may the county of Mecklenburg be celebrated by some more fortunate pen, that of our God and the general government of the...cooperation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor. " ' 4th. Resolved, That as we now acknowledge the existence and control of no law or legal officer,... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1834 - 386 pages
...and self-governing association, under the control of no power other than that of God and the General Congress ; to the maintenance of which independence...co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor. This bold declaration met with no general response at that period, and the people generally,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 520 pages
...Carolina, p 11. Raleigh, 1631. people ; are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, under the control of no power, other...than that of our God, and the general government of Congress ; to the maintenance of which independence, we solemnly pledge to each other, our mutual co-operalion,... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...we cannot trace them to any other document. In the Mecklenburg Declaration, the phrase stood, " lo the maintenance of which independence we solemnly...co-operation, our lives, our fortunes and our most sacred honor." In Mr. Jefferson's Declaration, it ran, "and for the support of this Declaration [with a firm... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...cannol trace them to any other document. In the Mecklenburg Declaration, the phrase stood, "to tlie maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge...co-operation, our lives, our fortunes and our most sacred honor." In Mr. Jefferson's Declaration, it ran, "and for the support of ihis Declaration [with a firm... | |
 | 1837 - 524 pages
...association, under the control of no power, other than that of our God, and the general government of Congress ; to the maintenance of which independence,...co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor. " That as we acknowledge the existence and control of no law nor legal officer, civil or military,... | |
 | William Henry Foote - North Carolina - 1846 - 568 pages
...ourselves a free and independent people ; are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, under the control of no power, other...co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor. " Resolved, 4th. That as we acknowledge the existence and control of no law, nor legal office,... | |
 | William Henry Foote - North Carolina - 1846 - 570 pages
...ourselves a free and independent people ; are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, under the control of no power, other...co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor. " Resolved, 4th. That as we acknowledge the existence and control of no law, nor legal office,... | |
 | Charles Campbell - History - 1847 - 220 pages
...ourselves a free and independent people ; are and of right ought to be a sovereign and self-governing association under the control of no power other than...mutual co-operation, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Resolved, 4th, That as we acknowledge the existence and control of no law, nor legal... | |
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That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance... 
