 | Craig R. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 310 pages
...that holiness, and Webster sought to expunge it with this powerful and emotional passage: If there be, within the extent of our knowledge or influence, any participation in this [slave) traffic, let us pledge ourselves here, upon the Rock of Plymouth, to extirpate and destroy... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 590 pages
...the true sons of New England to cooperate with the laws of man, and the justice of Heaven. If there be, within the extent of our knowledge or influence,...land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still... | |
 | Theology - 1823 - 686 pages
...said he in a strain of the highest eloquence, " if there be within the extent of our knowledge and influence any participation in this traffic, let us...that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame any longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, Iseethesmoke of the furnaces where manacles are still forged... | |
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If there be, within the extent of our knowledge or influence, any participation in this traffic, let us pledge ourselves here, upon the rock of Plymouth, to extirpate and destroy it. It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. 
