From the New York Packet Friday, March 7, 1788 To the People of the State of New York: THE remaining powers which the plan of the convention allots to the Senate, in a distinct capacity, are comprised in their participation with the executive in the appointment to offices, and in their judicial character as a…
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Francis Marion, Personal Correspondence, Mar. 1781
Gen. Marion to Lieut. Col. Balfour. Santee, March 7, 1781. Sir, I sent Capt. John Postell with a flag to exchange some prisoners, which Capt. Saunders, commandant of Georgetown, had agreed to, but contrary to the law of nations, he has been seized and detained as a prisoner. As I cannot imagine that his conduct…
Cornwallis’s Cruelty
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A writer in England says:—”A Scotch officer, lately arrived from America, hath assured some particular friends, that on the day of the action near Camden, Lord Cornwallis’s orders to the army were: ‘To take no prisoners in the field…