 | Harriet Hamline Bigelow - 1857 - 576 Seiten
...editor, issued the first number of the Liberator on Saturday, January 1, 1831. In this paper he says : ' I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard.' And to oppression he said : " 'I swear, while life's blood warms my throbbing... | |
 | 1889 - 876 Seiten
...Parker, and that one of William Lloyd Garrison which bore beneath the likeness the famous sentence, " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." Our library was not large, but sufficient to insure some culture, though the... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 Seiten
...enfranchisement of our slave population. I will be as hard as truth and as uncompromising as justice. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." This was the beginning of the new Abolitionist movement. The Abolitionists, in... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 Seiten
...mankind ;" and declaring. in the face of the almost universal apathy upon the subject of slavery : " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." Mr. Isaac Enapp was his partner in the printing and publishing department. As... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 Seiten
...mankind ;" and declaring, in the face of the almost universal apathy apon the subject of slavery : " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I -will be heard." Mr. Isaac Knapp was his partner in the printing and publishing department. As... | |
 | Felix Gregory De Fontaine - 1861 - 78 Seiten
...emancipation in the eyes of the nation, within sight of Bunker Hill, and in the birthplace of liberty. I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch. I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue lift from its pedestal, and... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society - 1861 - 352 Seiten
...inflexible;" holding up before the house the first number of the Liberator, and reading from it — "I am in earnest! I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard;" then adding, " That is from the first number of the Liberator, published in 1831,... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - 1862 - 268 Seiten
...but is there not cause for severity ? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in EARNEST ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; AND I WILL BE HEARD." How nobly the brave man has redeemed his pledge may be seen in the influence... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - 1862 - 252 Seiten
...but is there not cause for severity ? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in EARNEST ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; AND I WILL BE HEARD. " How nobly the brave man has redeemed his pledge may be seen in the influence... | |
 | 1862 - 970 Seiten
...but is there not cause for severity ? I will be as harsh as Truth, and as uncompromising as Justice. I am in earnest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch ; AND I WILL BE HEARD. Tho apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal,... | |
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I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD. 
