Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke... The History of North America - Page 328edited by - 1905Full view - About this book
| Edward Griffin Parker - 1857 - 496 pages
...heroes of the Revolutionary day, frowning from the wall, he exclaimed : " I thought those pictured lips would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, — the slanderer of the dead. The gentleman said" (here he fixed his glittering gaze on Austin) " that he should sink into insignificance,... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1863 - 582 pages
...Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, — the slanderer of the dead. [Great applause and counter applause.] The gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1863 - 588 pages
...Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, — the slanderer of the dead. [Great applause and counter applause.] The gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if... | |
| John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1864 - 446 pages
...Hancock, and Quincy, and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American — the slanderer of the dead." Twenty years later, October llth, 1858, Jefferson Davis spoke in Faneuil Hall, and used similar imagery.... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1864 - 580 pages
...Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hull] would have broken into voice to rebuke the ! | recreant American, — the slanderer of the dead. [Great' ' applause and counter applause.] The gentleman said that I he should sink into insignificance... | |
| Samuel Joseph May - 1869 - 434 pages
...Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead. [Great applause and counter-applause.] Sir, the gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance... | |
| Samuel Joseph May - 1869 - 432 pages
...Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead. [Great applause and counter-applause.] Sir, the gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1878 - 582 pages
...Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, — the slanderer of the dead. [Great applause and counter applause.] The gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if... | |
| Oliver Johnson - 1879 - 442 pages
...Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead. Sir, the gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if he dared not gainsay the principles... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1880 - 748 pages
...climax of his philippic. " I thought those pictured lips," pointing to the portraits in the. hall, " would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead. The gentleman said, that he should sink into insignificance, if he dared to gainsay the principles... | |
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