 | Bishop Charles Edward Locke - African Americans - 1913 - 78 pages
...faltered. He said: "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I 14 do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation....alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - Abolitionists - 1913 - 308 pages
...but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject. I do not wish to think, or speak,...No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderatejtlarm : tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher: tell the mother... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 954 pages
...enfranchisement of our slave population," he said; "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice on this subject — I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation — I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard/"... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - African Americans - 1913 - 276 pages
...In his salutatory editorial he said: "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. ... I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single... | |
 | Ephraim Douglass Adams - History - 1913 - 184 pages
...but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard."... | |
 | Samuel Eliot Morison - Hartford Convention - 1913 - 360 pages
...announced: I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population. . . . On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest —I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1913 - 650 pages
...but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation". He made no excuse for the slave-holder on the ground that the system had long existed, that it was... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 950 pages
...enfranchisement of our slave population," he said; "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice on this subject — I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation — I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 696 pages
...but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak,...alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 440 pages
...but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak,...house is on fire to give a moderate alarm . . . tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it is fallen ; but urge me not... | |
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I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from... 
