 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 776 pages
...is the cause of the freedom of man ! " 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,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 782 pages
...is the cause of the freedom of man ! " 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,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1856 - 172 pages
...unredeemed and unregenerated human beings. 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,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1856 - 176 pages
...unredeemed and unregenerated human beings. 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1856 - 560 pages
...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 have assisted to kindle, I can assure gentlemen, while I regret the necessity, I shall not forbear to contribute my mite. I... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1856 - 186 pages
...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 I have assisted to kindle, I can assure gentlemen, while I regret the necessity, I shall not forbear to contribute my mite. Sir,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 234 pages
...energy, referred to this new outcry : ' 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,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 214 pages
...and unregenerated human beings. 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,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 302 pages
...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 is probably as frail as that of any man who now hears me; but while that hold lasts,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 756 pages
...and unregenerated human beings. 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 My, let it come I My hold on life is probably »s frail as that of any man who now hears me ; lint,... | |
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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,... 
