 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1841 - 708 pages
...they can and will hold a language that will awe them into justice. If they threaten to separate noAv in case injury shall be done them, will their threats...be able to say, do us justice or we will separate. He urged the necessity of placing confidence to a certain degree in every government, and did not conceive... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 282 pages
...States shall be more numerous than the Northern, they can, and will, hold a language that will awe them into justice. If they threaten to separate now, in...be able to say, do us justice, or we will separate. He urged the necessity of placing confidence, to a certain degree, in every government, and did not... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 278 pages
...States shall be more numerous than the Northern, they can, and will, hold a language that will awe them into justice. If they threaten to separate now, in...be able to say, do us justice, or we will separate. He urged the necessity of placing confidence, to a certain degree, in every government, and did not... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...States shall be more numerous than the Northern, they can and will nold a language that will awe them into justice. If they threaten to separate now in...be able to say, Do us justice, or we will separate. He urged the necessity of placing confidence, to a certain degree, in every government ; and did not... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 676 pages
...States shall be more numerous than the Northern, they can and will nold a language that will awe them into justice. If they threaten to separate now in...period there will be no point of time at which they not be able to say, Do us justice, or we will separate. He urged the necessity of placing confidence,... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 678 pages
...into justice. If they threaten U» separate now in case injury shall be done them, will their tincáis be less urgent or effectual when force shall back...be able to say, Do us justice, or we will separate. He urged the necessity of placing confidence, to a certain degree, in every government ; and did not... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - United States - 1877 - 644 pages
...slave representation was under consideration, in allusion to the position of the Southern States : " If they threaten to separate now, in case injury shall...be able to say, Do us justice or we will separate." What will they do in this emergency ? It is a most unseasonable time for you to expect us to acquiesce... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - American essays - 1867 - 538 pages
...hands. 'f 'If the Southern States threatened to separate now,' said Rufus King, of Massachusetts, ' in case injury shall be done them, will their threats...or effectual, when force shall back their demands?' Or, in other words, when ' the Southern States shall be more numerous than the Northern.'^ It was,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 532 pages
...slave. " The southern states," said King, " threaten to separate now in case injury shall be done them. There will be no point of time at which they will...able to say, ' Do us justice or we will separate.' " The final motion to make blacks equal with whites in fixing the ratio of representation received... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...slave. " The southern states," said King, " threaten to separate now in case injury shall be done them. There will be no point of time at which they will...able to say, ' Do us justice or we will separate.' " The final motion to make blacks equal with whites in fixing the ratio of representation received... | |
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He must be short-sighted indeed who does not foresee, that, whenever the Southern States shall be more numerous than the Northern, they can and will hold a language that will awe them into justice. If they threaten to separate now in case injury shall... 
