 | Josiah Seymour Currey - Chicago (Ill.) - 1912 - 500 pages
...basis, with right and justice. If they did not do this, the first they knew they would find themselves with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other. He implored them in God's name not to allow themselves to come to this desperate pass." Monday was... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Revolutionaries - 1915 - 784 pages
...oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes ! my countrymen, \ should advise you to meet them upon the beach, with a sword in one hand and a torch in...would meet them with all the destructive fury of war. I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats before they had contaminated the soil... | |
 | Powell Clayton - Arkansas - 1915 - 388 pages
...of Arkansas and urging it upon them for adoption. If they were the sworn enemies of the State, armed with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, determined to do the State the utmost damage, they could not, in my opinion, more completely accomplish... | |
 | Josiah Seymour Currey - 1918 - 492 pages
...basis, with right and justice. If they did not do this, the first they knew they would find themselves with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other. He implored them in God's name not to allow themselves to come to this desperate pass." Monday was... | |
 | Margaret Ketcham Ward - African Americans - 1885 - 90 pages
...spring out of bed saying, "The Yankees are coining; they are only 10 miles out of town; they are coming with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other." That was the watchword. Then we would all try to think what we had that was valuable, although at that... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 880 pages
...to the utmost of my strength. Yes ! my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them upon the breach with a sword in one hand, and a torch in the other....would meet them with all the destructive fury of war. I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 876 pages
...to the utmost of my strength. Yes ! my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them upon the breach with a sword in one hand, and a torch in the other....would meet them with all the destructive fury of war. I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - Catholic emancipation - 1880 - 560 pages
...oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes! my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them upon the beach with a sword in one hand and a torch in...would meet them with all the destructive fury of war. I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats before they had contaminated the soil... | |
 | Paul Avrich - History - 1984 - 586 pages
...basis, with right and justice." If they did not do this, "the first they knew they would find themselves with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other. He implored them in God's name not to allow themselves to come to this desperate pass."10 The next... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them on the heach, with a sword in one hand, and a toreh in the other; I would meet them with all the destructive...animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats, hefore they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if foreed to... | |
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Were the French to come as invaders or enemies, uninvited by the wishes of the people, I should oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes ! my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them upon the beach with a sword in one hand and a torch in the... 
