 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.  History of North America - Stran 271avtor: John Talbot - 1820 - 4 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Benson John Lossing - 1865 - 388 strani
...body offered to Great Britain the hand of reconciliation, at the same time saying, with firmness, " We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." They voted to raise an army of twenty thousand men ; and, on the 15th of June [1775], they chose George... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 strani
...famine. We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice....and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just, our union is perfect, our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1870 - 400 strani
...body offered to Great Britain the hand of reconciliation, at the same time saying, with firmness, " We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." They voted to raise an army of twenty thousand men; and, on the 15th of June [1775], they chose George... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 704 strani
...submission to the tyranny of irritable ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. ^e have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful us voluntary •lnvery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom •hich... | |
 | 1875 - 1750 strani
...reduced," they say, "to the choice of 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 nothiug so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 strani
...of choosing an unconditional submission to irritated Ministers, or resistance by force. The hitter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest,...and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just, our union is perfect, our internal resources are great, and, if necessaiy, foreign... | |
 | 1874 - 448 strani
...human race. v THE State of Vermont, vve have now clearly shewn, has a natural right to independence; honor, justice and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which our innocent posterity have a right to demand and receive from their ancestors. Full well may they... | |
 | William O. Bateman - 1876 - 416 strani
...' to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice....and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.' \ 48. Dec- The desire for independence was not; at this time, unilaration of independence. l See a... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - 1876 - 714 strani
...reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice....and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery." It voted to raise an army of twenty thousand men, and on June 15th, elected George Washington commander-in-chief... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 652 strani
...famine. We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice....and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just, our union is perfect, our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign... | |
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