| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1885 - 492 páginas
...appearance (January i, 1831) of the first number of the Liberator in Boston. When Garrison wrote, " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard," Andrew Jackson for once met a will firmer than his own, because more steadfast,... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1885 - 442 páginas
...and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to speak or write with moderation. 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 North was bound hand and foot by the slavetrade almost as effectually... | |
| John Milner Fothergill - 1885 - 232 páginas
...William Lloyd Garrison commenced the publication of the Liberator, he began with these memorable words : "I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard." He has been heard, with what result the country knows. The free negroes of America,... | |
| 1885 - 504 páginas
...the strength of his purpose is further shown in the following inscription on the side of the pedestal "I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retire a single inch ; I will be heard." From the annual report of Major CW Raymond on the improvement... | |
| 1886 - 454 páginas
...whose motto was " Immediate, unconditional emancipation," and in it he made manifest his purpose : " I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard." Consider a moment what he was undertaking. He was a poor, uneducated lad,... | |
| Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 páginas
...commenced the publication of his paper called "The Liberator," he began with these memorable words : " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard" And he was heard, and felt, and his paper became a great power for good in the... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 páginas
...appearance (January 1, 1831) of the first number of the Liberator in Boston. When Garrison wrote, " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard," Andrew Jackson for. once met a will firmer than his own, because more steadfast,... | |
| 1886 - 588 páginas
...Lloyd Garrison on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Among the inscriptions on the pedestal are these : " I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." " My country is the world ; my countrymen are all mankind." The statue was designed... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 páginas
...written in his Liberator, in 1830, " 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." But the Garrisonian abolitionists remained for a long time, even in the North,... | |
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