 | Egerton Ryerson - 1880 - 556 pages
...counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom...innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. * * " With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1881 - 572 pages
...voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which is received from our gallant ancestors, and which our...We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning our succeeding generations to that wretchedness, which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 pages
...counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom...innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We can not endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 pages
...counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from ovir gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity has a right to receive from us. Our cause... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...counted the cost of this contest,and find noihing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom...if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. Our cause is just Our union is perfect Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1891 - 538 pages
...Britain and establishing independent States. We fight not for glory or for conquest Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom...if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. ... In our native land, and in defence of the freedom which is our birthright, and which we have ever... | |
 | Elisha Joseph Fessenden, Lundy's Lane Historical Society - 1892 - 44 pages
...arms. This last is our choice. Honor, justice and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom we received from our gallant ancestors, and which...innocent posterity have a right to receive from us." And they go on to say : " Lest this declaration should unquiet the minds of our friends and fellow... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 456 pages
...this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice and humanity forbid us to surrender that freedom which we received from our...from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of consigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 466 pages
...innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of consigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which...if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign... | |
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JUStice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations... 
