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
| William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 428 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." — Washington to Henry Lee. The popular movement in Western Massachusetts in opposition to the constituted... | |
| Charles Bradlaugh - 1899 - 256 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,... | |
| United States - 1899 - 346 pages
...Which he can never do that 's slain. BUTLER. February I 1775 A Provincial Congress met at Philadelphia. Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured. WASHINGTON. February 2 1653 New York City was incorporated as New Amsterdam. Our hearts, our hopes,... | |
| Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional history - 1900 - 444 pages
...You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. . . . Influence is not government. Let us have a government...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." l The weakness of the Confederation, especially in its relation to the revenue, had been early seen... | |
| Horace Binney - John Marshall Day - 1900 - 72 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. ' ' On the same side, then and ever after, was JOHN MARSHALL; and when the extremity of public distress... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 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. — To Henry Lee, in Congress, 31 October, 1786. Fain would I hope, that the great and most important... | |
| William Augustus Mowry - Pennsylvania - 1909 - 252 pages
...collapse of the United States government was imminent. to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. Influence is not government. Let us have a government...which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secure, or let us know the worst at once." Delegates from five states met in January, 1786, at Annapolis,... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1901 - 496 pages
...1786. MY DEAR SIR, . . . Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, aud properties 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. . . . Let the reins... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1902 - 414 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst." There was the same feeling everywhere. Government was too slack, order too uncertain. The authority... | |
| John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 564 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. Under these impressions my humble opinion is that there is a call for decision. Know then precisely... | |
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