 I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon, to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN...  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society - עמוד 489מאת American Antiquarian Society - 1898תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | John Stetson Barry - 1857 - 492 דפים
...law to be in force, Jan. 12. and offering pardon to all who would forthwith, lay down their arms, " excepting only from the benefit of such pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whoso offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign... | |
 | Henry William Harrison - 1858 - 462 דפים
...pardon to all persons " who shall forthwith lay down their arms and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such...other consideration than that of condign punishment." This proclamation, so far from intimidating the colonists, only served to strengthen and unite them.... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1858 - 808 דפים
...Major Greaton. t Graham, iv. 378. The offences of these gentlemen were regarded by GOTernor Gage as of " too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." setts chose Dr. Warren to be their President, and appointed him the second major-general of their own... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1859 - 618 דפים
...gracious pardon to all persons who would lay down their arms and return to the duties of peaceable be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your...minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is th were of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment."... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 דפים
...Hill, Gage offered a pardon to all rebels excepting Samuel Adams and John Hancock, "whose offenses are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than of condign punishment." This virulent proscription, intended to be their ruin, widely extended their... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1903 - 1078 דפים
...proclamation of pardon on June 12th, expressly excepted Hancock and Adams, "whose offenses," he said, "are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." In defiance of the known hostility toward Hancock of the British Ministry, and partly, no doubt, with... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 552 דפים
...only from the benefit of that pardon " Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offenses were said to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." He also proclaimed that not only the persons above named and excepted, but also all their adherents,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 458 דפים
...from General Gage's amnesty proclamation on June, 1775, on the ground that he had "committed offences of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." Samuel Adams was one of the delegates from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia,... | |
 | Jacob A. Spaythe - 1903 - 382 דפים
...and Samuel Adams, the offenses of whom, in the language of the proclamation, were "of too flagitous a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." This denunciation, which was regarded as a mark of distinction by the patriots, gave Hancock a capital... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - 1904 - 498 דפים
...lay down their arms and return to the duties of peaceful subjects, excepting only from the benefits of such pardon, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit any other consideration than that of condign punishment." The army hastily-gathered around Boston,... | |
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