 Besides, sir, we 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 heard on the plains of Boston! The war...  A seventh reader - Page 310by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919Full view - About this book
 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...alone. There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...alpne. There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not...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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 pages
...nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our -battles for us. The battle, BIT, is not to the strdng alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. 100 If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not...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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not...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... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 pages
...alone. There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not...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... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1851 - 610 pages
...the strong alone ; but to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, we have no longer a choice. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too...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,... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone, — it is to the active the vigilant, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election ! If we were base enough to desire... | |
 | 1851 - 770 pages
...are not weak, if we make a proper nse of those means which God and nature hath placed in our power. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, and the active, and the brave." Mr. Henry made no reply to this retort — but turning to one of his... | |
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