 | Davy Crockett, Augustin Smith Clayton - 1837 - 226 pages
...If your bull gored my ox, you must make compensation but if my bull gored your ox, I must look iit.3 the case. But I have a still stronger case than this....Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these vil p 2 lains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed ; for I... | |
 | Davy Crockett, Augustin Smith Clayton - 1837 - 224 pages
...your bull gored my ox, you must make compensation but if my bull gored your ox, I must look ill .5 the case. But I have a still stronger case than this....scalping-knife of Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the afiidavits of these vil lains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 808 pages
...General's partisans so acquiescent. " I am literally in hell here," he wrote, shortly after the fight ; " the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with...^Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed ; for I will... | |
 | James Parton - Presidents - 1861 - 688 pages
...here," he wrote, shortly after the fight; " the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with—liars, affidavitmakers, and shameless cowards. All the puppies...Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed ; for I will... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - Americana - 1861 - 558 pages
...will this be but the government of ONE man ? And what is the government of one man but a monarchy ?J Names are nothing ; the nature of a thing is its substance...Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these viJ p 2 lains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed ; for I... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 554 pages
...for the Bentons. Thomas wrote from that place a few days afterwards : " I am literally in hell here, the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with...Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed ; for I will... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 554 pages
...for the Bentons. Thomas wrote from that place a few days afterwards : " I am literally in hell here, the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with...Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed; for I will not... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 562 pages
...for the Bentons. Thomas wrote from that place a few days afterwards ; " I am literally in hell here, the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with...Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed ; for I will... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 570 pages
...general's partisans so acquiescent. ' I am literally in hell here,' he wrote shortly after the fight ; ' the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with...Tecumpsy is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed ; for I will... | |
 | Emily Benning Smith - 1927 - 238 pages
...literally in hell here, the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with • liars, affadavitmakers, and shameless cowards. All the puppies of Jackson...astonished at what will happen; for it is not them lus their master, whom 1 will hold accountable. The scalping-knife of Tecumpsy is mercy compared with... | |
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Now mark what a change has come over the colonel's mind. In a letter written by the colonel, shortly after the battle, to one of his friends, he thus speaks of General Jackson : " I am literally in hell here ; [that is, in the vicinity of General Jackson... 
