 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 pages
...almost superhuman energy, proclaimed the " alternative of slavery or war." " There is," said he, " no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free...to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges 5 for which we hare been so long contending ; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...dissolve ; And like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a rack behind. In vain after these tilings may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wisli to be free — if we wish to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...have been disregard'ed ; | and we have been spurned with contempt, | from the foot of the throne. | In vain, after these things, | may we indulge the...which we have pledged ourselves nev.er to abandon | until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained', | 2we must fight / | I repeat it, sir,... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, — if we mean to pre serve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we...which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, un ,, till the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, — we must fight! — I repeat it,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...supplications have been disregarded ; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. 7. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond...which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be ^b24 ' •••"' tiined — we must fight ! —... | |
 | John Niles Hubbard - Frontier and pioneer life - 1842 - 322 pages
...to reverberate through every town and hamlet — " There is no longer any room for hope. If we mean to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which \ve have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle. in which... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...have been disregarded — and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. 6. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond...which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight ! — I repeat it, Sir... | |
 | David Urquhart - Great Britain - 1843 - 644 pages
...supplications have been disregarded — and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond...which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight —I repeat it, Sir, wemustjight.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indnlge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is...which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained— we must fight ! — I repeat it, sir,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...supplications have been disregarded ; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond...any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we wish to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending —... | |
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Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge... 
