 | William Addison Phillips - 1856 - 422 pages
...a warfare predicted by William H. Seward, in the United States Senate, in those memorable words: " Come on, then, gentlemen of the slave states ! Since...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right." CHAPTEE II. THE FIRST INVASION. THE cabins of squatters had begun to dot the face of the country, and... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1862 - 440 pages
...there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it on behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition on the virgin soil of Kansas, and God give the victory...side that is stronger in numbers as it is in right." If he had only acted up to this language, we should have seen another state of things in the United... | |
 | 1868 - 784 pages
...on, then, gentlemen of the Slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge. I accept it in behalf of Freedom. We will engage in competition for...that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right!" The act became a law May 30, 1854. The South greeted it with bonfires and triumphal guns ; the North with... | |
 | 1868 - 798 pages
...on, then, gentlemen of the Slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of Freedom. We will engage in competition for...is stronger in numbers, as it is in right ! " The act became a law May 30, 1854. The South greeted it with bonfires and triumphal guns ; the North with... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 692 pages
...on, then, gentlemen of the Slave States; since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of Freedom. We will engage in competition for...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right!' — Speech of Wm. H. Seward, in the United States Senate, 185k. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1856."... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1889 - 374 pages
...on, then, gentlemen of the Slave States ; since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition for...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right." Thus rang out the voice of the Hon. William H. Seward, during the last days of the Senate debate on... | |
 | Charles Sumner Gleed - 1880 - 290 pages
...the Missouri Compromise became useless, "since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it on behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition for...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." By the passage of that act the wall which had excluded slavery from the free Territories... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1887 - 364 pages
...on, then, gentlemen of the slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition for...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." The people of Western Missouri, of whom glimpses have been given in former chapters, were... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1907 - 372 pages
...gentlemen of the slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalfoffreedom. We will engage in competition for the virgin soil...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." The people of Western Missouri, of whom glimpses have been given in former chapters, were... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1887 - 372 pages
...gentlemen of the slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalfoffreedom. We will engage in competition for the virgin soil...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right." The people of Western Missouri, of whom glimpses have been given in former chapters, were... | |
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Come on, then, gentlemen of the slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition for the virgin soil of Kansas, and God give the victory to the side that is stronger in numbers,... 
