| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 pages
...conscience and to God The voice of humanity issues from the shade of the wilderness ; it exclaims that while one hand is held up to reject this treaty, the other grasps a tomahawk. It summons our imagination to the scenes that will open. It is no great effort of the imagination to... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...uncomplaining sacrifice. The voice of humanity issues from the shade of '25 the wilderness ; it exclaims, that while one hand is held up to reject this treaty, the other grasps a tomahawk. It summons our imagination to the scenes that will open. It is no great effort of the imagination to... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...uncomplaining sacrifice. The voice of humanity issues from the shade of the wilderness. It exclaims, that, while one hand is held up to reject this treaty, the other grasps the tomahawk. It summons our imagination to the scenes that will open. It is no great effort of the... | |
| 1869 - 186 pages
...uncomplaining sacrifice. The voice of humanity issues from the shade of the wilderness ; it exclaims, that while one hand is held up to reject this treaty, the other grasps a tomahawk. It summons our imagination to the scenes that will open. It is no great effort of the imagination to... | |
| 1869 - 182 pages
...great effort of the imagination to conceive that events so near are already begun. I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance and the shrieks of torture ; already they seem to sigh in the Western wind ; already they mingle with every echo from the mountains."... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 pages
...Fisher Ames, depicting the dangers of a threatened war with the Indians, exclaimed : "I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance and the shrieks of torture ; already they soem to sigh in. the western wind ; already they mingle with every echo from the mountains.... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pages
...great effort of the imagination to conceive that events so near are already begun. I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance and the shrieks of torture. Already they seem to sigh in the west wind : already they mingle with every echo from the mountains."... | |
| George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...great effort of the imagination to conceive that events so near are already begun. I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance and the shrieks of torture; already they seem to sigh in the western wind ; already they mingle with every echo from the mountains.... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pages
...great effort of the imagination to conceive that events so near are already begun. I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance and the shrieks of torture. Already they seem to sigh in the west wind ; already they mingle with every echo from the mountains."... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 pages
...uncomplaining sacrifice. The voice of humanity issues from the shade of the wilderness ; it exclaims, that while one hand is held up to reject this treaty, the other grasps the tomahawk. It summons our imagination to the scenes that will open. It is no great effort of the... | |
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