 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...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
...was imminent. to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by 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 - 566 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Judges - 1903 - 548 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties and...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 594 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim <»v. If they have reed grievances,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
