Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway (1775)
Dear Friend, In my last per Falconer I mentioned to you my showing your Plan of Union to Lords Chatham and Camden. I now hear that you had sent it
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Dear Friend, In my last per Falconer I mentioned to you my showing your Plan of Union to Lords Chatham and Camden. I now hear that you had sent it
SIR, “Since the conversation your Excellency was pleased to honor me with, on the subject of uniting the colonies more intimately with Great Britain, by allowing them Representatives in Parliament,
First Letter WHILE not only every personal artifice is employed by a few heated and inconsiderate spirits, to practise upon the passions of the people, but the public papers are
TO argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead,
Whereas the Inhabitants of Long Island, have for a Long time groaned under many grievous inconveniences, and discouragements occasioned partly from their subjection, partly from their opposition to a forraigne
THAT there shall be in every plantation, where the people use to meete for the worship of God, a house or roome sequestred for that purpose, and not to be
Hon. W. H. Seward Executive Mansion My dear Sir My view of the present condition of the War is about as follows: The evacuation of Corinth, and our delay
Governor William L. Sharkey, Jackson, Miss. I am gratified to see that you have organized your Convention without difficulty. I hope that without delay your Convention will amend your State
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 22d of July, and all the inclosures enumerated therein, giving an account of the late barbarous massacre at the
With a civil service organized upon a system which will secure purity, experience, efficiency, and economy, a strict regard for the public welfare solely in appointments, and the speedy, thorough,