 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...also to exhibit the strong desire for reconciliation still felt and avowed by the most radical party : "We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to trranny of irritable ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. ve counted the cost... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...to exhibit the strong desire for reconciliation still felt and avowed by the most radical party : " We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to ihe tyranny of irritable ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. fi> hare counted... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...vengeance of administration can inflict them, the complicated calamities of fire, sword, and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Mexico - 1859 - 446 pages
...time, published6 to the world the reasons °^ l^e'r aPPeal to arms. *" We are reduced," said they, " to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." 'Having vote(l to raise an army of 20,000 men, they unanimously elected" George... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 618 pages
...vengeance of administration can inflict them, the complicated calamities of fire, sword, and famine. rcumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare...swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instanc EATB COUNTED THE COST OF THIS CONTEST, AND F!> : • NOTHING 80 DKBADFUL AS VOLUNTARY 8LATEBY I Honor,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Mexico - 1859 - 446 pages
...Ian- . , , , i <• viiascdid said they, "to the alternative ol choosing an unoontheywici ditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers,...We have counted the cost of this contest, and find no3. ma thing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." 'Having «re» were" voted to raise an army of 20,000... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - History - 1859 - 730 pages
...that his country at last — alas too truly — was "reduced to the alternative of choosing between unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force." He was familiar with the fact that the Provinces had been freshly stigmatized, by large majorities,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...vengeance of administration can inflict them, the complicated calamities of fire, sword, and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom •which... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 pages
...fire, sword, and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just, our union is perfect, our internal resources are great, and,... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 556 pages
...to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest "of the nation. — Pitt. "We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." — Dec. of Congress, July 6, 1775. — ED. 2 Perhaps the preacher here caught... | |
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We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. — The latter is our choice. WE HAVE COUNTED THE COST OF THIS CONTEST, AND FIND NOTHING SO DREADFUL AS VOLUNTARY... 
