 | Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 452 pages
...published in the Genius of Universal Emancipation at Baltimore, in 1829." In closing he writes : " I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will...not retreat a single inch — and I WILL BE HEARD." These declarations then seemed absurd, egotistical and fool-hardy; but in process of time he made them... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - 1875 - 388 pages
...cism is in this paragraph, which follows a partial quotation of Garrison's famous declaration, that " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate — I will...not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD." " Ion " wrote — " This is a defence which has been generally accepted this side of the Atlantic,... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 438 pages
...published in the Genius of Universal Emancipation at lialtimore, in 1829." In closing he writes : " I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will...— I will not retreat a single inch — and I WILL w. HEARD." These declarations then seemed absurd, egotistical and fool-hardy ; but in process of time... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 394 pages
...the abolitionists might be prosecuted in the courts. Mr. Garrison had, however, said, in his paper, " I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." The excitement was much increased by an insurrection that took place in Virginia, headed by a slave... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 622 pages
...contrary, as soon as he got out of jail, he went to editing that paper of his, with this flaming motto: "/am in earnest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse. I will not retreat a sinale inch, and I will be heard. Everybody knew he was a fanatic, but the trouble with fanatics is,... | |
 | William H. Bowen - 1876 - 436 pages
...of rashness : " I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. I will not extenuate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." That early word of Garrison's was the key - note of the struggle whose end he lived to see, though... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 636 pages
...I ani aware that many object to the severity of my language ; but is there not cause for severity 1 I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising...not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD." This humble printer, so speaking after the first taste of persecution, a quarter of a century ago,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 538 pages
...I am aware that many object to the severity of my language ; but is there not cause for severity ? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising...will not .retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEABD.' This humble printer, so speaking after the first taste of persecution, a quarter of a century... | |
 | 1879 - 422 pages
...free by presidential proclamation. Thus wondrously did he fulfill his own prophetic announcement : "I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not...not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard!*' In his youth, Garrison was a pronounced politician of the Newburyport whig, or conservative school.... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 628 pages
...the fire into which it has fallen ; — but urge not me to use moderation in a case like the present. I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I...not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard. " It is pretended that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness of my invective and... | |
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I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD. 
