 Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge...  The London Magazine - Page 4191822Full view - About this book
 | Robert Reid Howison - Virginia - 1848 - 542 pages
...disregarded ; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne. In vain after these things may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation....have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight ! An appeal... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation....There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 536 pages
...and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation....There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne. In vain after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation....There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to he free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the 70 throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. I ('we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we... | |
 | William Wirt - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1850 - 314 pages
...and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. " In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation....contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble •truggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...throne ! In vain, after these things, 28 may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. 29 There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to...if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable 30 privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 pages
...addressing the Convention of Virginia, had in a celebrated speech exclaimed : " As to peace, Sir, " there is no longer any room for hope. If we " wish to be free — wejnust fight ! I repeat it, Sir, " we must fight ! An appeal to arms and to the " God of Hosts... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...and we have bcen spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the Throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation....There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be frce, — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have bcen so long... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 946 pages
...contempt from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may vr indulge the fond hope of reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free : if we wish to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending .... | |
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