| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...call into civilized alliance, the wild and inhuman inhabitants of the woods ? — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights,... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 498 pages
...this clear ground, instead of chastisement they are entitled to redress. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...would lay down my arms — never — never — never. And again Lord Chatham said : I would sell my shirt from off my back to assist in proper measures,... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife ofthe savage: to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant ofthe woods; to delegate... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never !'" The Earl of Coventry, Earl Temple Chatham's brother-in-law, and the Duke of Richmond, all spoke... | |
| John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...would lay down my arms — never — never — never !" . When he came to speak of the employment of the Indians in the service of Britain, his tone was... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never !"* The Earl of Coventry, Earl Temple Chatham's brother-in-law, and the Duke of Richmond, all spoke... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms: Never, never, never! Bnt, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 466 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never." He affirmed that our own army was infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies, and that the... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 468 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...never would lay down my arms — never, never, never." He affirmed that our own army was infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies, and that the... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed...country, I never would lay down my arms — NEVER ! SEVER ! KEVER 1 THE SAME, CONTINUED. Mr lords, who is the man, that in addition to the disgraces... | |
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