 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 pages
...petition, comports with those warlike preparations 'which cover our waters and darken our land ? Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation...its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemyin this quarter of the... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 pages
...darken our land? Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shewn ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force...our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These arc the implements of war and subjuga tion — the last arguments, to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen,... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pages
...•ir. These are the implements of war and subjuga-! Heaven, uttering the words "We mtutfghl," a tion— the last arguments, to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purposes be not to force us to submission? — Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it?... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 382 pages
...vith those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and arioues necessary to a work of love and reconciliation ? Have...our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These ;ire the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen,... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 376 pages
...waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconcilialion ? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled,...our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These ore the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen,... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation...its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ?— Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pages
...petition, comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land 1 Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation...its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it 1 Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 pages
...petition, comports with those warlike preparations, which cover our waters and darken our land ? Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation...its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other motive for it ? Has Great Britain any other enemy in this quarter of the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?...its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...petition comports with those warlike preparations, which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleet* and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation...ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation—the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial... | |
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Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling... 
