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... George Washington - Seite 24von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1917 - 776 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Spohn Baker - 1897 - 384 Seiten
...Smallwoods & got home to dinner." — Washington's Diary. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. At Mount Vernou : " You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." — Washington to Henry Lee. The popular movement in Western Massachusetts in opposition to the constituted... | |
| William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 430 Seiten
...Smallwoods & got home to dinner." — Washington's Diary. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. At Mount Vernon : " You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." — Washington to Henry Lee. The popular movement in Western Massachusetts in opposition to the constituted... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 Seiten
...founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious! — To John Jay, 1 August, 1786. You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...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 Spohn Baker - 1898 - 428 Seiten
...Smallwoods & got home to dinner." — Washington's Diary. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. At Mount Vernon : " You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." — Washington to Henry Lee. The popular movement in Western Massachusetts in opposition to the constituted... | |
| Charles Bradlaugh - 1899 - 256 Seiten
...George Washington to use his influence with the people, the latter thus replied from Mount Vernon: "You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have real grievances,... | |
| 1899 - 346 Seiten
...Which he can never do that 's slain. BUTLER. February I 1775 A Provincial Congress met at Philadelphia. Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured. WASHINGTON. February 2 1653 New York City was incorporated as New Amsterdam. Our hearts, our hopes,... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 654 Seiten
...founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious!— To John Jay, 1 August, 1786. You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...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... | |
| Horace Binney - 1900 - 72 Seiten
...where that influence is to be found, nor, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not Government. Let us have...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... | |
| Israel Ward Andrews - 1900 - 444 Seiten
...You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. . . . Influence is not government. Let us have a government...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." l The weakness of the Confederation, especially in its relation to the revenue, had been early seen... | |
| William Augustus Mowry - 1909 - 252 Seiten
...collapse of the United States government was imminent. to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. Influence is not government. Let us have a government...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,... | |
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