 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...enveloped in darkness, as not to see rays of a distant sun through all this mist of intoxication and folly. You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what... | |
 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 560 pages
...Britain ; and it was thought that Vermont was negotiating with Canada. The wise and virtuous said, " Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties may be secured." "New York," says Marshall, "had given her final veto to the impost system." The confederation... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 574 pages
...where that influence is to be found ; nor, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. " Influence is not government. Let us have...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." " Let the reins of government then be braced," he continued, " and held with a steady hand ; and every... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 464 pages
...stay the mad proceedings of the insurgents. " You talk, my good Sir," he answered, with much feeling, "of employing influence to appease the present tumults...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." The convention that framed the federal constitution was now in session, and when the result of its... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...where that influence is to be found, nor, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what... | |
 | Georg Weber, Francis Bowen - United States - 1853 - 588 pages
...where that influence is to be found ; and, if attainable, it voum not be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." § 520. Accordingly, a Convention of delegates from eleven of the States was held at Philadelphia in... | |
 | Georg Weber - 1854 - 588 pages
...where that influence is to be found ; and, if attainable, it would not be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." § 520. Accordingly, a Convention of delegates from eleven of the States was held at Philadelphia in... | |
 | Georg Weber - United States - 1854 - 586 pages
...where that influence is to be found; and, if attainable, it would not be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." § 520. Accordingly, a Convention of delegates from eleven of the States was held at Philadelphia in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...Henry Lee in Congress, who had addressed several letters to him on the subject, Washington writes : " You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. Jf they have real grievances,... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 574 pages
...in darkness, as not to see rays of a distant sun through all this mist of intoxication and folly,, You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what... | |
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You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have... 
