Upon the commissioners this chill gust from the North struck so disagreeably that, on January 2, they hastened home to their "independent nation.
A reconnaissance, suggested by a Ladysmith message, dated 17th November, had been conducted by Captain H.
Early in the morning of the 4th, Schoeman, baulked in his attempt of the 1st January against the British right, dashed suddenly from his lines with a thousand men against the left, and all but rolled it up.
As British colonies we enjoyed it before the Revolution; as revolted colonies we lost it; and as an independent nation we sought to obtain it again.
Do you ask now if foreign powers can acknowledge our Rebel embryo as an independent nation?
If Mexico, notwithstanding all this and her utter inability to subdue or reconquer Texas, still stubbornly refused to recognize her as an independent nation, she was none the less so on that account.
From the facts which have come to our knowledge there is good cause to believe that their enemy has lost forever all dominion over them; that Greece will become again an independent nation.
It was recognized as an independent nation by the leading commercial powers of the world; and no well-informed person, even in Mexico, dreamed that it would return to its former connection.
I believe that, in the proper sense of words, Ireland is an independent nation, even if Edward VII.
I believe that, in the proper sense of the words, Scotland is an independent nation, even if Edward VII.
The moment a people cease to be an independent nation in fact, they cease to be sovereign, and the moment they become in fact an independent nation, they are so of right.
There can then be no independent nation de facto that is not anindependent nation de jure, nor de jure that is not de facto.
He had struck a fatal blow at the colonial spirit in our politics, and had lifted up our foreign policy to a plane worthy of an independent nation.
Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent nation.
The war had achieved this so far as our connection with England was concerned, but it still remained to prove to the world that we were an independent nationin fact as well as in name.
From the facts which have come to our knowledge, there is good cause to believe that their enemy has lost for ever all dominion over them; that Greece will become again an independent nation.
It has never been contemplated by me, as an object of the war, to make a permanent conquest of the Republic of Mexico or to annihilate her separate existence as an independent nation.
In my opinion we can only treat as an independent nation, and on an equal footing.
The honor of an independent nation forbids their treating in a subordinate capacity.
For my own part I rather suspect that this order treated us as an independent nation, and that the Minister found it difficult to establish any general regulations respecting our prizes or commerce, without meeting with that obstacle.
English authority in Ireland would be increased by the possession of that freedom of action which every powerful State exercises in its dealings with a weaker though an independent nation.
They are, in short, arguments in favour of Irish independence; every one of them would be seen in its true character if the Irish demand should take the form of a claim that Ireland should become an independent nation.
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