 It has suffered the military commandants stationed among us to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny; thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizen and rendering the military superior to the civil power.  Niles' National Register - Page 971836Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Lundy - History - 1836 - 72 pages
...having acted tyrannically, as follows : " It has suffered the military commandant stationed among us to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power." In what respect these " arbitrary... | |
 | John Milton Niles - Mexico - 1837 - 614 pages
...or the capacity for self government. " It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among OS, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...civil power. " It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the... | |
 | John Milton Niles - 1837 - 620 pages
...or the capacity for self government. " It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...civil power. " It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the... | |
 | Texas - Session laws - 1838 - 1142 pages
...or the capacity for self government. It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...civil power. It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the... | |
 | William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 562 pages
...or the capacity for self-government. It has suffered the military commandants, staiioned among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...civil power. It has dissolved, by force of arms, the State Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the... | |
 | William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 574 pages
...or the capacity for self-government. It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...citizen, and rendering the military superior to the civil po\ver. It has dissolved, by force of arms, the State Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our... | |
 | N. Doran Maillard - Texas - 1842 - 544 pages
...or the capacity for self-government. It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...civil power. It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the... | |
 | Nathan Covington Brooks - California - 1849 - 696 pages
...or the capacity for self-government. " It has suffered the military commandants stationed among us to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...civil power. " It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...or the capacity for self-government. " It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny,...thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power. " It has dissolved, by force of arms,... | |
 | J. M. Morphis - Texas - 1874 - 620 pages
...or the capacity for self-government. "It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny, thus trampling upon the most sacred lights of the citizen, and rendering the military superior to the civil power. " It has dissolved,... | |
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