 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...king, and conciliatory addresses to the people of Great Britain. 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 forward in the... | |
 | 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 the eye of a Hutchinson... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1865 - 388 pages
...body offered to Great Britain the hand of reconciliation, at the same time saying, with firmness, " We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." They voted to raise an army of twenty thousand men ; and, on the 15th of June [1775], they chose George... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 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...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just, our union is perfect, our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign... | |
 | Jesse Truesdell Peck - United States - 1868 - 774 pages
...sword, and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to irated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just, our union is perfect, our internal resources are great ; and, if necessary, foreign... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1870 - 400 pages
...body offered to Great Britain the hand of reconciliation, at the same time saying, with firmness, " We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." They voted to raise an army of twenty thousand men; and, on the 15th of June [1775], they chose George... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 704 pages
...submission to the tyranny of irritable ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. ^e have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful us voluntary •lnvery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom •hich... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 1750 pages
...forces. " We are now reduced," they say, "to the choice of unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers or resistance by force. The...We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothiug so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 pages
...of choosing an unconditional submission to irritated Ministers, or resistance by force. The hitter is our choice. We have counted the 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, if necessaiy, foreign... | |
 | Vermont - 1874 - 448 pages
...human race. v THE State of Vermont, vve have now clearly shewn, has a natural right to independence; honor, justice and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which our innocent posterity have a right to demand and receive from their ancestors. Full well may they... | |
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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 slavery. 
