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" 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... "
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 - Page 27
by Michael R. Beschloss - 2007 - 400 pages
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National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen ...

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...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

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...
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

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...
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The Young Debater and Chairman's Assistant: Containing Instructions how to ...

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...
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The Young Debater and Chairman's Assistant: Containing Instructions how 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."...
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Rhetoric: A Text-book : Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges, and for ...

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....
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a ...

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."...
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The Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and ...

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....
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms

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."...
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Patriotic Eloquence: Being Selections from One Hundred Years of National ...

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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