 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1825 - 450 pages
...millions to the nation? I know the valour of your troops — I know the skill of your effieers — I know the force of this country ; but in such a cause...state, and pull down the constitution with her. Is this vout bo rated peace ? not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard) but w sheathe it in the bowels of your... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pages
...his eloquent reprobation of the contest. w In such a cause success would be deplorable and victory hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the...embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constituti >n along with her." After devoting nine chapters — nearly a third of his volume — to... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 314 pages
...lift my hands and my voice against it. In such a cause, your success wouli be deplorable and victory hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the...pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her." 35. The sentiments of this great statesman prevailed in parliament. The stamp act... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 490 pages
...lift my hands and my voice against it. In such a cause, your success would be deplorable and victory hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the...pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her." The sentiments of this great statesman prevailed in parliament. The stamp act was... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 546 pages
...where so many here, will think it a crying injustice, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous....pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? Not to sheath the sword in its scabbard, but to sheath... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 650 pages
...? " Having adverted to the profits to Great Britain from the trade of the colonies, he proceeds : " I know the valour of your troops — I know the skill...constitution with her. Is this your boasted peace r Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen ? The... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...my hands and my voice against it. " In such a cause, your success would be deplorable, and victory hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the...man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pulldown the constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? — not to sheath the sword... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1832 - 484 pages
...my hands and my voice against it. " In such a cause, your success would be deplorable, and victory hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the...pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace ? — not to sheath the sword in its scabbard, but to sheath... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " I know the valour of your troops, and the skill of your officers ; but in such a cause, your success would be hazardous....the state, and pull down the constitution with her. The Americans have been wronged : they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " t know the valour of your troops, and the skill of your officers; but in such a cause, your success would be hazardous....the state, and pull down the constitution with her. The Americans have been wronged : they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them... | |
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In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her. 
