 | Wendell Phillips - 1863 - 588 pages
...profound and far-reaching was the sagacity of Daniel Webster ! Remember who it was that said, in 1831, " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I...not excuse, — I will not retreat a single inch, — and I will be heard!" [Repeated cheers.] That speaker has lived twenty-two years, and the complaint... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1863 - 582 pages
...but is there not cause for severity ? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I will not excuse, — I will not retreat a single inch,—AND I WILL BE HEARD. " It is pretended that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...Christian Examiner, at Boston, issued the first number of the " Liberator," making the declaration — " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be Jieard." He borrowed the type and press of the office he worked in. He could not get... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1864 - 580 pages
...profound and far-reaching was the sagacity of Daniel Webster ! Remember who it was that said, in 1831, " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I...not excuse, — I will not retreat a single inch, — and I will be heard!" [Repeated cheers.] That speaker has lived twenty-two years, and the complaint... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 pages
...in my hand, and in which he announces his intention to prosecute this war upon slavery to the end. " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." That is from the first number of the Liberator, published in 1831, by William... | |
 | British and foreign freed-men's aid society - 1866 - 586 pages
...there not cause for such severity ? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retract a single inch, and 1 will be heard." And that, after all, expresses to a great extent tho future... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 pages
...the fire into which it has fallen ; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present ! I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 pages
...the fire into which it has fallen ; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present ! I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 pages
...the fire into which it has fallen ; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present ! I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal,... | |
 | 1868 - 104 pages
...there not caiise for such severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retract a single inch, and I will be heard." (Cheers.) And that, after all, expresses to a great extent... | |
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I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD. 
