Thursday, August 10, 2006
RANDOM ORATIONS POST
Chatham 1777 on the affairs in america
i gotta say he sounds a tad like murtha and feingold
talking about america here-You cannot subdue her by your present or by your measures. What then can you do? you can not conquer; you can not gain; but you can ADDRESS; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them. But, my lords, the time demands the language of truth. we must not now apply the flattering unction of serile coplaisance. in a just and neccessay war, to maintain the rights or honor of my country, i would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjustin its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its CONSEQUENCES,(emph mine) i would notcontribute a single effort nor a single shilling. I do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guily; i only recommend to them to make their retreat let them walk off; and let them make haste, or they may be assured that speedy and condign punishment will overtake them.
to the hague with them!
Chatham 1777 on the affairs in america
i gotta say he sounds a tad like murtha and feingold
talking about america here-You cannot subdue her by your present or by your measures. What then can you do? you can not conquer; you can not gain; but you can ADDRESS; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them. But, my lords, the time demands the language of truth. we must not now apply the flattering unction of serile coplaisance. in a just and neccessay war, to maintain the rights or honor of my country, i would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjustin its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its CONSEQUENCES,(emph mine) i would notcontribute a single effort nor a single shilling. I do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guily; i only recommend to them to make their retreat let them walk off; and let them make haste, or they may be assured that speedy and condign punishment will overtake them.
to the hague with them!
