 Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The...  ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS; - Page 206by HENRY HOWE - 1859Full view - About this book
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 640 pages
...strong alone, but to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. Besides, we have no longer a choice. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable ; and let it come ! Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 534 pages
...strong alone, but to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. Besides, we have no longer a choice. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable; and -let it come! Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually... | |
 | 1841 - 618 pages
...friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election....retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are furged. Their clanking may be heard on the plaius of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. 10. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base...may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! — I repeat it, sir, let it come ! 11. It is vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election....may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! .' " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election....clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...for us. The battle, sir, is not to 16 UNITED STATES SPEAKER. the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election....clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election....clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come!! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! .' ! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1844 - 434 pages
...friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election....clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable ; and let it come ! I repeat it, Sir, let it come ! " It is vain, Sir, to extenuate the... | |
 | John Smith Hanna - United States - 1844 - 378 pages
...friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election....clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! the war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! it is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.... | |
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