 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. And to the end that no person within the limits of this proffered mercy may plead ignorance of the... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 862 pages
...General Gage issued a pardon to all who had rebelled, except Hancock and Adams, whose offences were of "too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than condign punishment." Hancock was a member of the " Calkers' Club," from which, it is said, the word... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 364 pages
...subjects; exceptingonly from the benefit of such pardon SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment" (Journal of the Provincial Congress, p. 331). The Boston Gazette (of June 24, 1775), with better wit... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - New York (State) - 1879 - 522 pages
...General Gage issued by order of the King, and this on the express KTOHIK! that their offenses were of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. could only be successfully cultivated by negro labor. Once, indeed, New York had more slaves than Virginia,... | |
 | Robert Dickson Smith - Fourth of July orations - 1880 - 76 pages
...Hancock were alone excepted from Gen. Gage's proclamation of pardon in 1775, " their offences being of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment;" how, when the ancient government of Massachusetts was abrogated by Great Britain by the repeal of our... | |
 | 1883 - 994 pages
...government, "excepting only from the benefit of such pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offenses are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." He afterward remarked that the rel>els added "insult to outrage" as, " wilh a preposterous parade of... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1884 - 686 pages
..." excepting only from the benefit of such pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." 2 This proclamation, which served only to show the situation of it8 author, and his anger toward the... | |
 | New England - 1892 - 848 pages
...proclamation offering pardon to all the rebels except Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." Hancock was one of the Massachusetts delegates to the second Continental Congress, and upon the withdrawal... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1884 - 690 pages
...submission, "excepting only from the Benefit of such Pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose Offences are of too flagitious a Nature to admit of any other Consideration than that of condign Punishment."2 Samuel Adams, as a member of Congress, now enters upon a career, which takes him from... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1884 - 644 pages
..." excepting only from the Benefit of such Pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose Offences are of too flagitious a Nature to admit of any other Consideration than that of condign Punishment."2 Samuel Adams, as a member of Congress, now enters upon a career, which takes him from... | |
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HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. 
