 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...a Mexican I would tell you, " Have /ou not room in your own country to bury ^our dead men ? If yon come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." Why, says the Chairman of this Committee >f Foreign Relations, it is the most reasona>le thing in the... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - United States - 1847 - 80 pages
...But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred millions in a few years, and we want room. If I were a Mexican I would tell you, "Have you not...come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, ui.li welcome you to hospitable graves. " Why, says the chairman of this Committee on Foreign Relations,... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - United States - 1859 - 534 pages
...But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred millions in a few years, and we want room. /If I were a Mexican I would tell you, "Have you not...room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If jou come into mine we will greet you with bloody_hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." Why,... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - United States - 1886 - 344 pages
...speech of great length and ability in the Senate, on the llth of February, 1847, used this expression : "If I were a Mexican I would tell you, have you not room in your own country for your dead men? If you" come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands to hospitable graves.".... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1868 - 806 pages
...But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred million!* in a few years, and we want room. If I were a Mexican I would tell you, " Have you not room in your own country to bury voar dead men ? If you come into mine we thief, arraigned for stealing a horse, plea that it was the... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...course of proceeding in this matter ?" So Hon. Mr. Corwin represented the people of Mexico as saying : "Have you not room in your own country to bury your...bloody hands, and welcome you — to hospitable graves !" Such questions are not asked because they require an answer, but because the very opposite to what... | |
 | Dakota Indians - 1901 - 772 pages
...Oorwin, in the United States Senate, opposed the war with Mexico, and was credited with having said, "If I were a Mexican I would tell you : Have you not...bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves." Some foolish member of the House presented a petition asking for the resignation of Senator Corwin... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - Statesmen - 1875 - 414 pages
...were a Mexican I would ask, ' Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead ? If you come to mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.' " You want ' more room* ! This has been the plea of every robber from Nimrod to the present day. I... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - Statesmen - 1875 - 424 pages
...millions, and we want room for them, therefore we must have California. If I were a Mexican I would ask,' Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead ? If you come to mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.' "... | |
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If I were a Mexican I would tell you, "Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves. 
