Title | Nature, extent, and importance, of the duty of allegiance : a sermon preached at Aberdeen, December 12, 1776, being the fast day appointed by the King, on account of the rebellion in America. |
Call Number | E297 .C18; Record ID 99192400102001 |
Date | 1778 |
Description | Sermon by the Principal of Marischal College at Aberdeen, Scotland, delivered on December 12, 1776, and published in 1778, arguing against the rebellion of the American colonists on the basis of one's Christian duty to remain subject to established governments. |
Creator | Campbell, George, 1719-1796. |
Subject | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | eng |
Spatial Coverage | United States; Great Britain |
Rights Management | http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Holding Institution | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Scanning Technician | Ellen Moffatt |
ARK | ark:/87278/s6g48t5f |
Setname | uum_rbc |
ID | 1324136 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g48t5f |
Title | Page 41 |
OCR Text | E74] reThe difadvantage the Americans fnltain in this No -w‘ fituati their of e quenc confe ary fpee‘t the necefi remedy that has been fitggt'ited, reliihed by them. Their manifefi: aim immu,-zz'{',"'. 'Ihcv contribute but a part of the ex'pence of their own internal government; no part of wrist is necefl'ziry the for the defence of the whole, nor for dit‘charning debt incurred by the two lafi wars, tho' entered into, for their proteetion, and in confeqnence of their clamoms. The tum of their propofals to Great Britain. Great advantages demanded. Their returns dilerctionary. A Charaéter of the colonies given by one of their friend5= The duplicity of the cong'refs in regard to the eitahli inn-pit of the Roman Catholic religion in Canada. '1 h marac'hi ofthe people not to be concluded, from Note. ib. the aétnnis or the congreih. CONCLUSION. Caution 3Eail-fl' allowing the pretence of liberty to betray us into Iirmtiaufmfc. Pretender.Q of this flamp in the apoitolic age. ‘ The people ohjeéts ofpitv more than of refentment. Not the intereit of Britain that America he enllaved. 'I‘?-e intereit of both the fame. A vulgar error that government is the freer the more reflbliam. The great blunder in the American governments, they were ' 68. too rt'ptznlican. . Their good, as well as ours, requires any that this he rcéhfied. 69. |
Format | application/pdf |
Setname | uum_rbc |
ID | 1324177 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g48t5f/1324177 |