 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,...  The Dial - Sivu 158muokkaaja - 1889Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Th Goodrich - 1998 - 312 sivua
..."Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it, in behalf of freedom. We will engage in a competition for the virgin soil of Kansas and God...the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right!"6 Eli Thayer was another. Even as Seward was delivering his dramatic, defiant, though hopelessly... | |
 | David McCullough - 2003 - 1409 sivua
...gentlemen of the Slave States," said Senator William H. Seward of New York in a speech in Washington, "...We will engage in competition for the virgin soil...side that is stronger in numbers as it is in right." As if in answer, several thousand pro-slavery Missourians— "enough to kill every God-damned abolitionist... | |
 | Evan Carton - 2006 - 401 sivua
...Seward goaded his southern colleagues. "Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it on the behalf of Freedom. We will engage in competition for...side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right." At Simon Perkins's request, Brown continued to work for him throughout 1853. Early in 1854, the men... | |
 | Jeremy Neely - 2007 - 327 sivua
...of the Slave States; since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of the cause of freedom. We will engage in competition for the...to the side that is stronger in numbers as it is in right."40 For all of their rhetorical zeal, Seward and his peers could not have easily foreseen the... | |
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