 | Georg Weber - World history - 1860 - 634 pages
...and, if attainable, it would not be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not povernnrent. Let us have a government, by which our lives, liberties,...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... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious! — Tu John Jan, 1 August, 1786. You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. — To Henry l<ee, in Congress, 31 October, 1786. Fain would I hope, that the great and most important... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...Congress, who had addressed several letters to him on the subject, Washington writes: " You talk, ruy good sir, of employing influence to appease the present...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have real grievances,... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pages
...interfere in the case of a State rebellion. "You talk," wrote Washington to a friend in Congress, " of employing influence to appease the present tumults...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." It was in the midst of all this confusion and terror, that the genius of Hamilton at length saw the... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 pages
...interfere in the case of a State rebellion. "You talk," wrote Washington to a friend in Congress, " of employing influence to appease the present tumults...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." It was in the midst of all this confusion and terror, that the genius of Hamilton at length saw the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...present tumults in Massachusetts. (!) I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attained, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders....will be secured, or let us know the worst at once, — know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have real grievances, redress them, if possible;... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 516 pages
...influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Inflnence is not government. Let us have a government, by which...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." It was in the midst of all this confusion and terror, that the genius of Hamilton at length saw the... | |
 | John William Draper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 568 pages
...eood sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts (Shay's Kebellion). I know not where that influence is to be found, or,...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." In another letter to Mr. Jay,Washington says: " Your ms letter to Mr. statements that our affairs are... | |
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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... 
