 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1854 - 762 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...consolation is to be, that I shall not live to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away against an abstract principle,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away,... | |
 | John Peyre Thomas - 1857 - 432 pages
...themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country was to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons." The country too has at length awoke to a sense of the error, and there is reason to hope that it is... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw anay,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 766 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of them> selves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that ray only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the un«i*e and unworthy passions of their tons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Memminger - 1860 - 52 pages
...irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. • ******« * * * fice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...is to be, that I shall not live to weep over it." We will now pass down to the period when a new element was brought into this unfortunate controversy.... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 558 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not, to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away,... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 526 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that 1 live not, to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw... | |
 | 1861 - 514 pages
...regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to...sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I Iiv9 not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away,... | |
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I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that... 
