| Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...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...is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps... | |
| Ovid - Latin literature - 1817 - 498 pages
...only 'his audience, but also the nation, in the White heat of decision and determination. He said: "The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it,...is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...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 might be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! ! I repeat it,... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...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...clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is ene vitable; and let it come!! I repeat it, sir— LET IT COME! ! ! * "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission vid sluvery! Our chains are forged: their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is entvitable; and let it come! ! I repeat it, sir — L>. r IT com!!! "It is m vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
| 1822 - 734 pages
...election. If we were bate 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 upon the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come. It is in vain to extenuate the matter.... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission »nd slavery! Our chains are forged: their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war i-. inevitable; and let it come! ! I repeat it, sir— LET IT сомж!!! "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
| Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is n,ow too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery ! Our...is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps... | |
| Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...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...and let it come!! I repeat it, sir, let it come!!! i•It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.... | |
| Statesmen - 1824 - 516 pages
...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...of Boston ! The war is inevitable ; and let it come ! ! 1 repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! ! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may... | |
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