 | Thomas Colley Grattan - United States - 1859 - 550 pages
...ridding of this foul blot that revered State that gave me birth, or that not less beloved State that kindly adopted me as her son, I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy, for the honour of all the trinmphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror.* In this Henry Clay was... | |
 | Thomas Colley Grattan - History - 1859 - 538 pages
...revered State that gave me birth, or that not less beloved State that kindly adopted me as her sou, I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy, for the honour of all the triumphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror.* In this Henry Clay was... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 444 pages
...in ridding of this foul blot that revered State that gave me birth, or that not less beloved State which kindly adopted me as her son — I would not...exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy, for the honor of all the triumphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror. Having, I hope, shown... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1860 - 448 pages
...this fowl I/lot that revered state that gave me birth, or that not less beloved state which kind!y adopted me as her son, I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy, for the honor of all t/u triwmvlu ever decreed to the most success/id conqueror." To the system of colonization,... | |
 | John Chandler Gregg - Clergy - 1866 - 298 pages
...I COULD BE INSTRUMENTAL IN ERADICATING THIS DEEP STAIN, SLAVERY, FROM THE CHARACTER OF OUR COUNTRY, I WOULD NOT EXCHANGE THE PROUD SATISFACTION WHICH I SHOULD ENJOY, FOR THE HONOR OF ALL THE TRIUMPHS EVER DECREED TO THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CONQUEROR." Noble words! which possess... | |
 | Universalism - 1866 - 930 pages
...could be instrumental in eradicating this deepest stain, slavery, from the character of our country, I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy, for the honor of all the triumphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror." No sketch of New Orleans... | |
 | John Chandler Gregg - New Orleans (La.) - 1868 - 294 pages
...I COULD BE INSTRUMENTAL IN ERADICATING THIS DEEP STAIN, SLAVERY, FROM THE CHARACTER OF OUR COUNTRY, I WOULD NOT EXCHANGE THE PROUD SATISFACTION WHICH I SHOULD ENJOY, FOR THE HONOR OF ALL THE TRIUMPHS EVER DECREED TO THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CONQUEROR." Noble words ! which possess... | |
 | David Webster Hoyt - Hoyt family (John Hoyt, d. 1687) - 1871 - 760 pages
...could be instrumental in eradicating this deepest stain, Slavery, from the character of our country, I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy, for the honor of all the triumphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror." Since the close of the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1873 - 936 pages
...foul blot that revered State that gave me birth, or that not less beloved State which kindly ail pted me as her son, I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy for the honor of all the triumphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror." But Mr. Clay, like Mr.... | |
 | Charles Edwin Röbert - African Americans - 1880 - 186 pages
...in ridding of this foul blot that revered State that gave me birth, or that not less beloved State which kindly adopted me as her son ; I would not exchange the proud satisfaction which I should enjoy, for the honor of all the triumphs ever decreed to the most successful conqueror. " We are reproached with... | |
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I could be instrumental in eradicating this deepest stain upon the character of our country, and removing all cause of reproach on account of it, by foreign nations; if I could only be instrumental in ridding of this foul blot that revered state that... 
