 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
 | John Forrest Dillon - Judges - 1903 - 560 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... | |
 | Agnes Mawson - 1905 - 206 pages
...something charming to me in the conduct of Washington. JOHN ADAMS. He is a fine man ! JOHN HANCOCK. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties and properties will be secured. Of all great men, he was the most virtuous and the most fortunate. In this world, God has not higher... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1905 - 644 pages
...have one by which our lives, liberWASHINGTON PLATE AND PITCHER. From Metropolitan Museum of Art. ties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." After five years of peace, the Union was still iriy^onfusion and uncertainty. Congress lost the popular... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1905 - 680 pages
...have one by which our lives, liberWASHINOTON PLATE AND PITCHER. From Metropolitan Museum of Art. ties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." After five years of peace, the Union was still in confusion and uncertainty. Congress lost the popular... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 694 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 at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what... | |
 | L. Brent Vaughan - World history - 1908 - 724 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...be secured, or let us know the worst at once." The evil workings of the Articles of Confederation had by 1786 produced universal dissatisfaction. Pamphleteers... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 316 pages
...Something must be done," he declared, " or the fabric must fall, for it is certainly tottering." " Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once," he pleaded. " Without an alteration in our political creed," he urged, "the superstructure we have... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 318 pages
..." Something must be done," he declared, " or the fabric must fall, for it is certainly tottering." "Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once," he pleaded. " Without an alteration in our political creed," he urged, "the superstructure we have... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 500 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 at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what... | |
 | History - 1909 - 396 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." Writing to Lafayette, on the 1oth of May, 1786, he hailed with approval the coming session of the Annapolis... | |
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