 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...  History of the American Civil War - Page 268by John William Draper - 1867Full view - About this book
 | John Fiske - United States - 1888 - 670 pages
...writes, " 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,...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
...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." When General Washington heard that the Massachusetts insurgents had rejected the pardon extended by... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1889 - 800 pages
...says: " 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,...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." Works, IX. 204. and well watehed to prevent encroachments, might restore us to that degree of respectability... | |
 | William Gammell - United States - 1890 - 416 pages
...: " 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,...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disease. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties... | |
 | John Scott - Democracy - 1890 - 370 pages
..."You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present discontents in Massachusetts. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties may be secured ; or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for a decision. Let the reins of... | |
 | Education - 1896 - 446 pages
...happiness. 2. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. 4. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be seen red. 5. (iood sense and honesty are qualities too rare and loo precious not to merit particular... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - United States - 1891 - 504 pages
...use of "influence " to check the disorders in Massachusetts that led to Shays's rebellion, he wrote : "Influence is not government. Let us have a government...properties will be secured, or let us know the worst." 162. Attempts to Strengthen the Government. — In 1781, before the Articles went into operation, Congress... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1891 - 544 pages
...folly.1 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,...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... | |
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