 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...testify, to be his words in conclusion : " ' But, gentlemen, so long as 1 am an American citizen, so long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall...amenable to the laws of my country for the same.' " On the 24th, a Committee from the meeting aforesaid presented its resolves to Mr. Lovejoy, asking... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...testify, to be his words in conclusion : * " 'But, gentlemen, so long as I am an American citizen, so long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall...amenable to the laws of my country for the same.' " On the 24th, a Committee from the meeting aforesaid presented its resolves to Mr. Lovejoy, asking... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...government and the people united against it. " So long as I am an American citizen," said Lovejoy, " so long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall...amenable to the laws of my country for the same." He removed his paper from St. Louis to Alton, Illinois, that he might be in a free state ; but the... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...government and the people united against it. " So long as I am an American citizen," said Lovejoy, " so long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall...amenable to the laws of my country for the same." He removed his paper from St. Louis to Alton, Illinois, that he might be in a free state ; but the... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 836 pages
...does not exist, I feel myself less called upon to discuss the subject than when I was in St. Ix>uis." The above, as we have stated, was his language in...amenable to the laws of my country for the same." GEORGE H. WALWORTH, SOLOMON E. MOORE, JOHN W. CHICKERING, FW GRAVES, A. ALEXANDER, AB ROFF, EFKINGHAM... | |
 | 1889 - 616 pages
...slavery," and ten of the most respectable citizens testified that he closed his remarks as follows : " But, gentlemen, as long as I am an American citizen,...amenable to the laws of my country for the same." Is there any " defiance of pledges made to the contrary " in all this? There is a notable editorial... | |
 | Church and the world - 1889 - 600 pages
...slavery," and ten of the most respectable citizens testified that he closed his remarks as follows : " But, gentlemen, as long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood rnns in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...testify, to be his words in conclusion: " 'But, gentlemen, so long as I am an American citizen, BO long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall...amenable to the laws of my country for' the same.' ' On the 24th, a committee from the aforesaid meeting presented its resolves to Mr. Lovejoy, asking... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 850 pages
...full fellowship with fhe Abolitionists; but, on the contrary, have had spirited discussions with some of the leading Abolitionists of the East, and am not...liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever 1 please on any subject — being amenable to the laws of my country for the same." GEORCE H. WALWORTH,... | |
 | Henry F. Kletzing - Characters and characteristics - 1898 - 394 pages
...was a Presbyinve years of age £ he established the "Obin denunciation with mob protect me to make am an -» American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in my veins. I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, write and publi>h whatever I please upon any subject,... | |
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But, gentlemen, as long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject — being amenable to the laws of my country for... 
