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 war is inevitable, and let it come... The Fifth Reader - Page 309by Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1873 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Mann - 1896 - 350 pages
...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...come ! ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! ! "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace. The... | |
| Ovid - 1817 - 498 pages
...only 'his audience, but also the nation, in the White heat of decision and determination. He said: "The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 pages
...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 might be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! ! I repeat it,... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pages
...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!...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is ene vitable; and let it come!! I repeat it, sir— LET IT COME! ! ! * "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
| 1822 - 734 pages
...have no election. If we were bate enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery—...chains are forged — their clanking may be heard upon the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come. It is in vain to extenuate the matter.... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 pages
...desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission »nd slavery! Our chains are forged: their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war i-. inevitable; and let it come! ! I repeat it, sir— LET IT сомж!!! "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 pages
...it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission vid sluvery! Our chains are forged: their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is entvitable; and let it come! ! I repeat it, sir — L>. r IT com!!! "It is m vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
| Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 382 pages
...have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is n,ow too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery...come ! ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! ! '.It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace. The war... | |
| Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 376 pages
...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...and let it come!! I repeat it, sir, let it come!!! i•It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.... | |
| 1824 - 516 pages
...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...of Boston ! The war is inevitable ; and let it come ! ! 1 repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! ! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may... | |
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