 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 388 pages
...out to Great Britain a loyal, open hand of reconciliation.7 At the same time, they said, firmly, " We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful' as voluntary slavery." They did not foolishly lose present advantages in waiting for a reply, but pressed... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 558 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. every man may enjoy his property,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1918 - 402 pages
...the complicated calamities of fire, sword, and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which... | |
 | William MacDonald - Charters - 1921 - 686 pages
...the complicated calamities of fire, sword, and famine. We * are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. — Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom... | |
 | History - 1922 - 242 pages
...Spirit be ascribed, as is most due, all power, might, majesty and dominion for ever and ever. AMEN. "We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." The CONGRESS STANZAS, adapted to the preceding discourse, and addressed to the... | |
 | John Louis Haney - American literature - 1923 - 484 pages
...admonition that our attachment to no nation upon earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. . . . 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... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1922 - 696 pages
..."We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritable ministers or resistance by force. The latter is our...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just. Odr union is perfect. . . . We mean not to dissolve that union... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - American literature - 1925 - 302 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... | |
 | Homer Carey Hockett - United States - 1925 - 470 pages
...This document placed all the blame upon the ministers. "We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. ..." In the hope of retaining the moral support of English Whigs, who in Parliament... | |
 | Felix Flügel - United States - 1927 - 216 pages
...the complicated calamities of fire, sword, and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated...cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. — Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom... | |
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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... 
