 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...  The March of Democracy - Page 56by Chester F. Miller - 1925 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Gayarré - 1882 - 544 pages
...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 a government...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1884 - 588 pages
...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 a government...proper.ties will be secured, or let us know the worst el once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have nal... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1884 - 144 pages
...founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious ! " " Let us have," he adds, " a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once ! " "I hoped," said Washington, as he turned his face to Mount Vernon, " to spend the remainder of... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - United States - 1887 - 420 pages
...present tumults in Massachusetts. . . . Influence 'American Museum, 1786, page 270, quoted by Story. is not government. Let us have a government by which...us know the worst at once." ' The weakness of the Confederation, especially in its relation to the revenue, had been early seen by Washington. He saw... | |
 | Washington Irving - United States - 1887 - 666 pages
...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 a government...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,... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - England - 1887 - 328 pages
...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 a government...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,... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional history - 1887 - 426 pages
...t1yoU ^HJ. my good sir> of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. . . . Influence is not government. Let us have a government...properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once."1 The weakness of the Confederation, especially in its relation to the revenue, had been early... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1888 - 670 pages
...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 a government...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,... | |
 | Mason Arnold Green - Springfield (Mass.) - 1888 - 712 pages
...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 a government...will be secured : or let us know the worst at once." When General Washington heard that the Massachusetts insurgents had rejected the pardon extended by... | |
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