 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...gentlemen may, without treason to the dead Republic, rise in this migratory House, wherever it may then bo in America, and declare themselves for recognizing...world, the scorn and hiss of every petty tyrant. It is becalise the people of the United States, rising to the height of the occasion, dedicated this generation... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 598 pages
...Prance into a camp, resolved that Europe might exterminate, but should not subjugate her, that Prance is the leading empire of Europe to-day. It is by such...existence on the integrity of the republic, are now any thing but the fragments of a nation before the world, the scorn and hiss of every petty tyrant.... | |
 | Ovando James Hollister - Biography & Autobiography - 1886 - 570 pages
...people that there shall be no compromise ; that ruin to ourselves or ruin to the Southern rebels ere the only alternatives. It is only by resolutions of...petty tyrant. It is because the people of the United Stales, rising to the height of the occasion, dedicated this generation to the sword, and pouring out... | |
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But until that time arrive, it is the judgment of the American people there shall be no compromise ; that ruin to ourselves or ruin to the southern rebels are the only alternatives. It is only by resolutions of this kind that nations can rise above great... 