 | James Madison - 1902 - 510 pages
...the propositions reported from the Committee go forth to the people. He was under no apprehensions. The Large States dare not dissolve the Confederation....who will take them by the hand and do them justice. He did not mean by this to intimidate or alarm. It was a natural consequence, which ought to be avoided... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 580 pages
...the last moment for a fair trial in favor of a good government. . . . He was under no apprehensions. The large States dare not dissolve the Confederation....the small ones will find some foreign ally, of more honour and good faith, who will take them by the hand, and do them justice." Mr. King took him sharply... | |
 | 1904 - 584 pages
...the last moment for a fair trial in favor of a good government. . . . He was under no apprehensions. The large States dare not dissolve the Confederation....the small ones will find some foreign ally, of more honour and good faith, who will take them by the hand, and do them justice." Mr. King took him sharply... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 390 pages
...propositions reported from the Committee go forth to the people. He was t1nder no apprehensions," he declared. "The Large States dare not dissolve the Confederation....who will take them by the hand and do them justice." ' Even from the meagre notes of Madison we can see something of the excitement, the feeling only half... | |
 | William Garett Brown - 1905 - 402 pages
...states dare not dissolve the confederation," he declared. " If they do, the small ones will find some ally of more honor and good faith, who will take them by the hand and do them justice." Before he took his seat, however, he tried to soften this threat ; and before he could be answered,... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 488 pages
...the propositions reported from the committee go forth to the people. He was under no apprehensions. The large states dare not dissolve the Confederation....who will take them by the hand and do them justice. He did not mean, by this, to intimidate or alarm. It was a natural consequence, which ought to be avoided... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1909 - 632 pages
...composition of the second branch was then taken up amid tense excitement. Bedford of Delaware declared that "the Large States dare not dissolve the confederation....who will take them by the hand and do them justice." Other small-state men argued that under a proportional system the government would become aristocratic.... | |
 | Edwin Hills Risley - 1909 - 346 pages
...the propositions reported from the committee go forth to the people. He was under no apprehension. The large states dare not dissolve the Confederation....who will take them by the hand and do them justice." But Ellsworth rises and pours oil on the troubled waters. Not only had divers kinds of plans been proposed... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 648 pages
...composition of the second branch was then taken up amid tense excitement. Bedford of Delaware declared that "the Large States dare not dissolve the confederation....who will take them by the hand and do them justice." Other small-state men argued that under a proportional system the government would become aristocratic.... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 pages
.... . The large States dare not dissolve the confederation. If they do, the small States will find a foreign ally, of more honor and good faith, who will take them by the hand and do them justice. . . . Mr. Gouverneur Morris [Pa.] regretted the turn of the debate. The States, he found, had many... | |
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The large States dare not dissolve the Confederation. If they do the small ones will find some foreign ally of more honor and good faith, who will take them by the hand and do them justice. 
