 ... and gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us, poor illiterate people, swallow down the pill, expect to get into Congress themselves ; they expect to be the managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and all the money into their own hands,...  The United States of America: 1783-1830 - Page 79by Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 462 pages
...the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great leviathan, Mr. President ; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah. This is what I am afraid of; but I won't say any more at present, but reserve the rest to another opportunity.... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 582 pages
...the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great Leviathan, Mr. President ; yes, just as the whale swallowed ug Jonah. This is what, I am. afraid of; but I won'/ say/any.motd at pfefceiiti bu* ^reserve 'trie... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks like the great Leviathan, Mr. President; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah." To these denunciations of the unfortunate lawyers and judges and clergymen and men of learning, one... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1881 - 604 pages
...the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great Leviathan, Mr. President ; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonak, This is what I am afraid of; but I won't say any more at present, but reserve the rest to another... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1891 - 654 pages
...of the Constitution. They mean to get all the money into their hands, and then they will swallow up us little folk like the great Leviathan, Mr. President ; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah." " It is an old saying," observed Mr. Randall on another day, " that a good thing don^t need praising... | |
 | Livingston County (N.Y.) - 1892 - 506 pages
...constitution, they mean to get all the money into their hands, and then they will swallow up us little folks, like the great Leviathan, Mr. President; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah." This is a fair specimen of the arguments used, when reduced to their foundations, in logic, even by... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - Political Science - 1896 - 218 pages
...the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great leviathan, Mr. President; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah. This is what I am afraid of." 2 1 He was the first white male child born in his town (Sutton); the... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Political Science - 1904 - 580 pages
...the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great Leviathan, Mr. President ; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah." He not only said this, but threatened to say more on a future occasion. The next speaker was Jonathan... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 584 pages
...the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great Leviathan, Mr. President; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah." He not only said this, but threatened to say more on a future occasion. The next speaker was Jonathan... | |
 | Oneida Historical Society at Utica - Oneida County (N.Y.) - 1905 - 474 pages
...managers of the Constitution. They mean to get all the money into their hands, and they will swallow up us little folk, like the great Leviathan, Mr. President; yes just as the whale swallowed up Jonah.'' But all this was met by an overwhelming weight of argument and reason on the other side. The men who... | |
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