. The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan. oposed that this colony be immediately put into a posture of de-fense, and that a committee prepare a plan for the embody-ing, arming, and disciplining such a number of men, as maybe sufficient for that purpose. The resolution was opposedby Bland, Harrison, and Pendleton, three of the delegatesof Virginia in Congress, and by Nicholas, who had beenamong the most resolute in the preceding May. The thoughtof an actual conflict in arms with England was new; theycounted on the influence of the friends of li
. The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan. oposed that this colony be immediately put into a posture of de-fense, and that a committee prepare a plan for the embody-ing, arming, and disciplining such a number of men, as maybe sufficient for that purpose. The resolution was opposedby Bland, Harrison, and Pendleton, three of the delegatesof Virginia in Congress, and by Nicholas, who had beenamong the most resolute in the preceding May. The thoughtof an actual conflict in arms with England was new; theycounted on the influence of the friends of liberty in theparent country, the interposition of the manufacturing in-terests, or the relenting of the sovereign himself. Are weready for war? they asked; are we a military people?Where are our stores, our soldiers, our generals, our money?We are defenseless; yet we talk of war against one of the mostformidable nations in the world. It wfll be time enough toresort to measures of despair when every well-founded hopehas vanished. Then it was that Patrick Henry made thespeech which GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH! to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win backour love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These arethe implements of war and subjugation, the last argu-ments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, whatmeans this martial array, if its purpose be not to force usto submission? Can gentlemen assign any other motivefor it? Has Great Britain any other enemy in this quarter ofthe world, to call for all this accumulation of navies andarmies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us;they can be meant for no other. They are sent over tobind and rivet upon us those chains which the Britishministers have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose them? Shall we tryargument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last tenyears. Have we anything new to offer on the subject?Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light ofwhich it is capable
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