 | Oliver Johnson - 1879 - 458 páginas
...work. "I will be," he said, " 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." . . "In attacking the system of slavery, I clearly foresaw all that has happened to me. I knew, at... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 72 páginas
...And what was written there? You have heard them already : you know them by heart: " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEAKD ! " Take the circumstances and conditions of the time in which they were uttered, consider the... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1879 - 418 páginas
...presidential proclamation. Thus wondrously did he fulfill his own prophetic announcement : "I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will he heard.'" In his youth, Garrison was a pronounced politician of the Newburyport whig, or conservative... | |
 | 1879 - 420 páginas
...presidential proclamation. Thus wondrously did he fulfill his own prophetic announcement : "I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch ; and I willbe heard!" In his youth, Garrison was a pronounced politician of the Newburyport whig, or conservative... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1888 - 440 páginas
...motto, ' My country is the world, my countrymen are all mankind,' and declaring, ' I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch. I will be heard.' " The agitation of the abolition of slavery, which was to end only with emancipation,... | |
 | 1879 - 562 páginas
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 | R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - 1879 - 512 páginas
...agitator himself, but of the knot of indomitable spirits he gathered about him : " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate ; I will ; not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch j and / will be heard. " J Few men ever accomplished so much, with means so small, and in J the face... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1880 - 402 páginas
...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 / will be heard! The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal,... | |
 | 1880 - 938 páginas
...helpless. " I will be," he said, " as harsh as truth, as uncompromising as justice. . . . I am in earnest; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch ; and I WILL BE KEARD." The Liberator, it soon became evident, was not to be treated with greater mildness than Garrison's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1880 - 730 páginas
...continued progress in human affairs. 1831.] GARRISON AND THE LIBERATOR. pose, — "I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single incli ; and I will be heard." And he kept his word. From that time till slavery was abolished, " The... | |
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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. 
