 Sir, if a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so. If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come. My hold on life is probably as frail as that of any man who now hears me ; but, while that hold lasts,...  The History of the United States of America - Page 667by Richard Hildreth - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 186 pages
...witnessed ; it is the freedom of man ; it is the cause of unredeemed and uuregenerated human beings. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...while that hold lasts, it shall be devoted to the service of my couutry — to the freedom of man. If blood is necessary to extinguish any fire which... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 pages
...witnessed ; it is the freedom of man ; it is the cause of unredeemed and unregenerated human beings. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...while that hold lasts, it shall be devoted to the service of my country—to the freedom of man. If blood is necessary to extinguish any fire which I... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 180 pages
...witnessed ; it is the freedom of man ; it is the cause of uuredeemed and uuregenerated human beings. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...now hears me ; but while that hold lasts, it shall bo devoted to the service of my country — to the freedom of man. If blood is necessary to extinguish... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Political parties - 1856 - 560 pages
...beings. It is an object interwoven with my existence. My purpose is fixed — I shall not retract. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...on life is probably as frail as that of any man who hears me ; but while that hold lasts, it shall be devoted to the service of my country — to the freedom... | |
 | William Chambers - History - 1857 - 302 pages
...Union. Tallmadge, who appears to have been a man of dauntless energy, referred to this new outcry : ' If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so. If civi war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come. My hold on life... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 756 pages
...witnessed; it is the freedom of man; it U the cause of unredeemed and unregenerated human beings. Sir, if a dissolution of the Union must take place, let...gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only My, let it come I My hold on life is probably »s frail as that of any man who now hears me ; lint,... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1858 - 836 pages
...Tallmadge, who appears to ' have been a man of dauntless energy, referred to ! this new outcry : " If a dissolution of the Union ! must take place, let...so. If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, muat come, I can only say, let it come. My hold on life is probably as frail as that of any man who... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 756 pages
...witnessed; it is the freedom of man ; it is the cause of unredeemed and unregenerated human beings. Sir, if a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so 1 If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come ! My hold... | |
 | William O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...witnessed ; it is the freedom of man ; it is the cause of unredeemed and unregenerated human beings. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so ! If a civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come ! My hold on... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 pages
...beings. It is an object interwoven with my existence. My purpose is fixed — I shall not retract. If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so. If civil war, which gentlemen BO much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come. My hold on life is probably as frail as that... | |
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