 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1866 - 706 pages
...the militia and taking a position for the protection of your territory above is utterly inadmissible, because you could not for a moment withstand the desperation...therefore condense it here, and, in concert with our watercraft, rest our main defence at this point." Whilst waiting for Claiborne's answer, Wilkinson,... | |
 | Walter Flavius McCaleb - History - 1903 - 412 pages
...Claiborne's suggestion that the militia should be called out and stationed above in the Territory. "You could not for a moment withstand the desperation...dreadful expedient of exciting a revolt of the negroes." Fearing the effect of his appeal Wilkinson rose next morning at six o'clock to reenforce his argument... | |
 | William Horace Brown - Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818 - 1906 - 388 pages
...to be overwhelmed by numbers . . . because you could not for a moment withstand the desperation and numbers opposed to you ; and the brigands, provoked...exciting a revolt of the negroes. If we divide our forces, we shall be beaten in detail ! " Later he wrote Claiborne that he had received intelligence... | |
 | William Charles Cole Claiborne - Louisiana - 1917 - 430 pages
...militia and taking a position for the protection of your Territory above, is utterly inadmissible, because you could not for a moment withstand the desperation...expedient of exciting a revolt of the negroes. If we devide our force we shall be beaten in detail, we must therefore condense it here, and in concert with... | |
 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - 1925 - 442 pages
..."you could not . . . withstand the desperation and superiority of numbers . . . and the brigands . . . might resort to the dreadful expedient of exciting a revolt of the negroes." And the next day he wrote again. "Proclaim martial law. ... I must entreat you to act with decision.... | |
 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - Politicians - 1925 - 444 pages
..."you could not . . . withstand the desperation and superiority of numbers . . . and the brigands . . . might resort to the dreadful expedient of exciting a revolt of the negroes." And the next day he wrote again. "Proclaim martial law. ... I must entreat you to act with decision.... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2000 - 528 pages
...of Louisiana over to him under martial law. "Only with extraordinary powers," he insisted, could he "withstand the desperation and superiority of numbers...and the brigands provoked by the opposition, might result to the dreadful expedient of exciting a revolt of the Negroes."10 252 Claiborne was at first... | |
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You could not for a moment withstand the desperation and superiority of numbers opposed to you and the brigands, provoked by the opposition, might resort to the dreadful expedient of exciting a revolt of the negroes. 