 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
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 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 ia inevitable — and let it come !— - I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
 | 1836 - 362 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 may be heai-d on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable— ^and let it come ! ! I repeat it, sir, let... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 pages
...give very marked emphasis to one or both of the parts separated by it, and particularly to the last. * The WAR is inevitable, — and let it COME ! — I repEAT it, sir, LET it COME.' intonation; and the fourth a still lower note, and still more extended quantity than the second. There... | |
 | 1837 - 396 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...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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...have no election. If we were base enoujjl 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 on the sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...nations: and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. retire from the contest. There ia no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains...and let it come ! ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! ! 11. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace — but there... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...no election. 100 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!...Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! (0) The war is inevitable — and let it come ! — I repeat it, sir, let 105 it come! It is vain,... | |
 | Henry Winsor - 1839 - 250 pages
...to desire it, it is now to late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission or slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may...let it come! I repeat it, Sir, let it come ! It is in vain to extenuate the matter; Gentlemen may cry peace, peace ; but there is no peace; the War is... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...no election. 100 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...Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! (0) The war is inevitable — and let it come ! — I repeat it, sir, let 105 it come! It is vain,... | |
 | 1840 - 554 pages
...have no election. If we were Aase enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery...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... | |
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