 | 1896 - 818 pages
...every vote, and equal standards for the privileges of citizenship, the ballot would then prove — " A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod ; But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God." SM MEHBILL. THE BEST CURRENCY.... | |
 | 1836 - 494 pages
...pardoned for quoting the oft- quoted- stanza: " There is a weapon surer yet And better than the bayonet ; A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall...a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God ; A weapon that no bolts nor locks Can bar— it is the ballot-box." The ballot will lead the freedman... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1840 - 366 pages
...As once * upon your house they fell. We have a weapon, firmer set And better than the bayonet; — A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ; But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God; And from its force, nor doors nor... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 508 pages
...entitled the BallotBox ? I quote from memory : We have a weapon firmer set, And better than the bayonet, A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod, Yet executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God. . Perhaps no temperance poem ever... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 674 pages
...of its citizens, and where each freeman would wield a weapon more potent than the power of kings, " A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod, But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God. And from it s force nor doors nor... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. Tlie Story of Rimini. JOHN PIERPONT. 1785-1866. A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God ; And from its force, nor doors... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...little cherub that sits up aloft, *- To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jach. JOHN PIERPONT. A WEAPON that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ; But executes a free man's will, As lightning does the will of God ; And from its force, nor doors,... | |
 | 1872 - 848 pages
...the last State of the "old thirteen" to come into the Union. John Pierpont described a ballot as " A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God." A man who bought a thousand Havana... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 1872 - 512 pages
...and as their sure refuge, is the ballot, — — "a weapon firmer set, And better than the bayonet; A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will As lishtmm; does the will of God." AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION. HOUSE... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - 1873 - 138 pages
...of adamant around the ballot, — "That mighty weapon, firmer set, And better than the bayonet, — A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod, But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God." EW Grand Marshal: you will please... | |
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A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod, But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God ; And from its force nor doors nor locks Can shield you; — 'tis the ballot-box. 
