 | James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
...think that bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the fit men to oppose these Southerners. Give me men of good principles, — God-fearing men,...oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruffians.' " He said that if one offered himself to be a soldier under him, who was forward to tell what he could... | |
 | Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 pages
...that bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the men fit to oppose these southernersGive me God-fearing men — men who respect themselves —...dozen of them, I will oppose any hundred such men as those Buford ruffians.' " I remained in the camp about an hour. Never before had I met such a band... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 674 pages
...think bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the men fit to oppose these Southerners ; give me God-fearing men — men who respect themselves —...dozen of them I will oppose any hundred such men as those Buford ruffians." Not the sort of men, these, one would care to be .fighting with. So their enemies... | |
 | John Brown - Abolitionists - 1861 - 486 pages
...the men fit to oppose these southernersGive me God-fearing men — men who respect themselves—and, with a dozen of them, I will oppose any hundred such men as those Buford ruffians.' " I remained in the camp about an hour. Never before had I met such a band... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Kansas - 1862 - 440 pages
...the men fit to oppose these Southerners. Give me God-fearing men—men who respect themselves—and with a dozen of them I will oppose any hundred such men as those Buford ruffians." The movements of the border ruffian bands were well known to Brown, who, under... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...think that bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the men fit to oppose these Southerners. Give me men of good principles — God-fearing men,...oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruffians.' "I remained in the camp about an hour. Never before had I met such a band of men. They were not earnest,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...think that bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the men fit to oppose these Southerners. Give me men of good principles — God-fearing men,...oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruffians.' "I remained in the camp about an hour. Never before had I met such a band of men. They were not earnest,... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...Southerners. Give me men of good principles — God-fearing men, men who respect themselves—and, with a dozen of them, I will oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruffians.' " I remained in the camp about an hour. Never before had I met such a band of men. They were not earnest,... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...think that bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the fit men to oppose these Southerners* Give me men of good principles — God-fearing men,...any hundred such men as these Buford ruffians."— John Brown, " of Kansas." " With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...think that bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the fit men to oppose these Southerners. Give me men of good principles, — God-fearing men,...oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruffians.' " He said that if one offered himself to be a soldier under him, who was forward to tell what he could... | |
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It is a mistake, sir, that our people make, when they think that bullies are the best fighters, or that they are the fit men to oppose these Southerners. Give me men of good principles, — God-fearing men, — men who respect themselves, and with a dozen... 
