 We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.  Universal history, ancient and modern - Stran 244avtor: William Fordyce Mavor - 1806Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Alden Bradford - 1843 - 256 strani
...submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest ; and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom, which we have received from... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1843 - 500 strani
...irritaTheir hope ted ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. and courage. \Ve have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our... | |
 | J. R. Miller - 1844 - 742 strani
...submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." They asserted " that foreign assistance was undoubtedly attainable." This was not founded on any private... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1845 - 508 strani
...irritaTheir hope ted ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. and courage. \\re nave COunted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our... | |
 | Michael Doheny - 1846 - 264 strani
...submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." American historians* palliate the hesitation, that the petition to the King, after his unceremonious... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 448 strani
...methods taken by British ministers to compel them to submit. 'We have counted, however,' said they, ' the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery:' nor did they fail to insist on the facility of obtaining foreign assistance. In the petition to his... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1847 - 680 strani
...to vsed ivtl'""the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." "Having voted to raise an army of 20,000 men, they unanimously elected0 George Washington commander-in-chief... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - 1847 - 574 strani
...wihtre la him, the said George Washington, with their lives and fortunel, in the same count ! 'July 6. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as slavery. * * * * * Gen. Washington to the President of Congress, July 10. ' I know nothing, in a speculative... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1852 - 974 strani
...exclaimed, ' to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. We have counted...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we re ceived from our... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1852 - 560 strani
...irritaTheir hope ted ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. and courage. \ye have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our... | |
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