 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1830 - 592 pages
...more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where docs this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts?...such a rebellion. The people cannot be all and always well-informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist 1 Where did it ever cxist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts ? And...ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid, we should ever he twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. . The... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 458 pages
...except in the single instance of Massachusetts ? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so_ honorably conducted ? I say nothing of its motives....not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be twenty y ear t without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Hartford Convention - 1833 - 466 pages
...quoted in the former part of this work, when speaking of the insurrection in Massachusetts, he said, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that... | |
 | Henry Lee - United States - 1839 - 292 pages
...insurgents, which I remember. On the contrary, he says to Col. Smith, in a letter dated November 13, 1787— "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!"— "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two1! The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time... | |
 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...Constitution had reached him, uses the following language in reference to the insurrection of Shays : " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." " "We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...representative government to the colonies ; and, although the former intimate union among them was not * God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion (ie a rebellion for the purpose of cancelling debts). Jefferson's Letter to Colonel Smith, November,... | |
 | 1849 - 770 pages
...sympathy had he with the spirit of him, who, respecting Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts, had said, " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion." Accordingly, the seat of the present sedition being supposed to contain about sixteen thousand men... | |
 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...the character of his views we may judge by his own words. Alluding to Shay's rebellion, he writes : " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without...such a rebellion. The people cannot be all and always well-informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the... | |
 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...character of his views we may judge by his own words. Alluding to Shay's rebellion, he writes : " Grod forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all and always Avell-iriformed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the... | |
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The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. 
