 | Thomas Corwin - United States - 1847 - 80 pages
...of a dollar an acre, and allowing every man to squat where he pleases. But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred millions in a few years,...bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, ui.li welcome you to hospitable graves. " Why, says the chairman of this... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...course of proceeding in this matter ?" So Hon. Mr. Corwin represented the people of Mexico as saying : "Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you — with bloody hands, and welcome you — to hospitable graves !" Such questions are not... | |
 | Dakota Indians - 1901 - 772 pages
...Oorwin, in the United States Senate, opposed the war with Mexico, and was credited with having said, "If I were a Mexican I would tell you : Have you not...bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves." Some foolish member of the House... | |
 | William Wesley Woollen - American newspapers - 1883 - 618 pages
...Corwin opposed the Mexican war. In a speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, he said : " If I were a Mexican I would tell you, ' Have you not...bury your dead men ? If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome jou to hospitable graves.' " Referring to this speech Judge... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 670 pages
...I were a Mexican, I would tell you, 'Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men f If you come into mine, we will ffreet you with bloody...of Freedom for the right to enter and possess the laud. His closing words were as follows : Should we prosecute this war another moment, or expend one... | |
 | William Henry Venable - History - 1891 - 548 pages
...last four belonging to a species of pure literature, mt generis, and altogether delightful. tence, " If I were a Mexican, I would tell you, ' Have you...bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves.' ' " Tom " Corwin's humor was of... | |
 | William Henry Venable - American literature - 1891 - 550 pages
...last four belonging to a species of pure literature, mi generis, and altogether delightful. tence, " If I were a Mexican, I would tell you, ' Have you...bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves.' " " Tom " Corwin's humor was of... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 538 pages
...to the statement of Cass, " We want room." " If I were a Mexican," said Corwin, " I would tell yon, 'Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.' " * It is inconsistent, but it is... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1894 - 456 pages
...Enclosed is the extract you refer to: — "If I were a Mexican I would tell you, 'Have you no room in our own country to bury your dead men?' If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." .... The speech of Corwin's is... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - Lawyers - 1896 - 510 pages
...of a dollar an acre, and allowing every man to squat where he pleases. But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred millions in a few years,...bury your dead men? If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." 21 Why, says the Chairman of this... | |
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If I were a Mexican I would tell you, " Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves. 
