Officers' Manual

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U. S. Cavalry Association, 1911 - 493 pages
 

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Page 490 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble, free, Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills : My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 490 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave ? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 490 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets...
Page 467 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States: for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage, their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Page 467 - He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance.
Page 469 - And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. JOHN HANCOCK. New Hampshire JOSIAH BARTLETT WM. WHIPPLE MATTHEW THORNTON Massachusetts Bay SAML. ADAMS JOHN ADAMS ROBT. TREAT PAINE ELBRIDGE GERRY Rhode Island STEP. HOPKINS WILLIAM ELLERY Connecticut ROGER SHERMAN SAM'EL HUNTINGTON WM.
Page 470 - Resolved, That copies of the Declaration be sent to the several assemblies, conventions, and committees, or councils of safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continental troops : that it be proclaimed in each of the United States, and at the head of the army.
Page 441 - ... and shall not be held to apply to merchandise or articles intended for other persons or for sale...
Page 51 - General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well-nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man— the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference and half-hearted work seem...
Page 469 - Harrison Thos. Nelson Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton NORTH CAROLINA Wm. Hooper Joseph Hewes, John Penn SOUTH CAROLINA Edward Rutledge Thos Heyward Junr.

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