Life and correspondence. Publications, by Gouverneur MorrisGray & Bowen, 1832 |
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Page 78 - If the ships of war are quiet, I shall be quiet ; but I declare solemnly, that if they make a pretext of my presence to fire on the town, the first house set on flames by their guns shall be the funeral pile of some of their best friends.
Page 123 - Governor, the Chancellor, and the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State, and possessed that veto power which in many other States was given to the Governor. To it went every bill passed by the Legislature.
Page 111 - That the reasons assigned by the Continental Congress for declaring the United Colonies free and independent States are cogent and conclusive; and that while we lament the cruel necessity which has rendered this measure unavoidable, we approve the same, and will, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, join with the other Colonies in supporting it.
Page 284 - The finish given to the style and arrangement of the Constitution fairly belongs to the pen of Mr Morris...
Page 90 - Interested men, who are not to be trusted, weak men who cannot see, prejudiced men who will not see, and a certain set of moderate men who think better of the European world than it deserves...
Page 25 - The mob begin to think and reason. Poor reptiles! it is with them a vernal morning: they are struggling to cast off their winter's slough, they bask in the sunshine, and ere noon they will bite, depend upon it. The gentry begin to fear this.
Page 286 - It is but due to Mr- Morris to remark, that to the brilliancy and fertility of his genius he added, what is too rare, a candid surrender of his opinions when the lights of discussion satisfied him that they had been too hastily formed, and a readiness to aid in making the best of measures in which he had been overruled.
Page 48 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 112 - House be changed from that of the 'Provincial Congress of the Colony of New York,' to that of ' The Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York,' " and thus on the 10th day of July, 1776, the State of New York was born.