Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . hout the consent of the otherStates, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the libertiesand happiness of millions comprising this Union, cannot be ac-knowledged, and that such authority is utterly repugnant both tothe principles upon which the general government is constitutedand the objects which it was expressly formed to attain. Resolved, That the constitution of the United States ofAmerica contains all the powers necessary to the maintenance ofits authority, and it is the solemn and most imperative d
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . hout the consent of the otherStates, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the libertiesand happiness of millions comprising this Union, cannot be ac-knowledged, and that such authority is utterly repugnant both tothe principles upon which the general government is constitutedand the objects which it was expressly formed to attain. Resolved, That the constitution of the United States ofAmerica contains all the powers necessary to the maintenance ofits authority, and it is the solemn and most imperative duty of thegovernment to adopt and carrv into effect whatever measures maybe necessary to that end; and the faith and the power of Penn- Curt ills Administration sykviiia ai\- lu-i\-l>\ //i-i/j^ii/ la the siipj^orl of sucli measures, inany nuiinwr ami to any extent that may be required of her h\ theconstituted authorities of the [ nitcd States. Oi a trutli tlierc was nn uncertain rins; nt loN-alty and patriot-ism in tliese resolutions at the time nf tlieii adoption, and when. John Franklin Agent of the Connecticut Susquehanna com-pany; captured by Colonel Timothy Pickering,178. and imprisoned in Philadelphia fourteenmonths without trial; was present at Wyomingjust after the massacre, and with Sullivan atthe battle at Newtown; born 1749; died for this work from an engraving inpossession of X. F. Walker in tlie course of a tew more months those qualities of loyalty andpatriotism were put to the test, the State of Pennsylvania faith-fuly fulfilled every promise and redeemed every pledge with anardor unsurpassed by that of any other State in the Union, But,notwithstanding the frequent reiteration of sentiments like thoseexpressed in the resolutions, and regardless of the fact that warbetween the North and the South even then was considered un- 377 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal avoidable, there was no real preparation for such an event untiljust before the actu
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