 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...supplications have been disregarded ; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. 8. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond...have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!... | |
 | Phrenology - 1847 - 408 pages
...the first orator of America." He conducted and concluded another independence speech as follows : — "'In vain, after these things, may we indulge the...have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ! we must fight ! I repent it, sir, we must fight... | |
 | William Wirt - Ithaca (N.Y.) - 1847 - 330 pages
...been disregarded ; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. »truggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which 'we...have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ! — we must fight ! — I repeat it, sir, we must... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 500 pages
...which have not been already exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert...have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! — I repeat it, sir, we must fight!!... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...find which have not been already exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done to avert...have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the -glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, — we must fight I repeat it, sir, — we must... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done to avert the storm that is coming on. We have petitioned — we have remonstrated...have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must fight !... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...1970). For information on the authenticity of the text of this speech, see the notes at No. 1061. 1922 There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to...have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained— we must fight!— I repeat it, sir, we must fight!!... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - Philosophy - 1993 - 228 pages
...mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in...have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!... | |
 | Alexandra Hanson-Harding - Education - 1997 - 92 pages
...snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed by a kiss. . . . Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now...have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat sir, we must fight! An appeal... | |
 | William John Bennett - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 440 pages
...Wirt, but it has been passed down from generation to generation as Henry's speech ever since.] '"5% have petitioned — we have remonstrated — we have...have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! — I repeat it, sir, we must fight!!... | |
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If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged... 
