Like Webster, who followed with his renowned "Seventh-of-March speech" and who alienated Massachusetts because he did not go far enough for freedom, Clay showed that there could be no peaceable secession, that secession meant war, and that it would be war to propagate a wrong, in which the sympathy of all mankind would be against us.

No quarter was given to men with arms in their hands; but women and children were spared, and only a few of the peaceable inhabitants were sacrificed during the storm.

I presume that Grant will be the president, and I shall defer to the decision like a peaceable citizen.

He taught them to desire and raise all the conveniences of life, instructed them in the arts of agriculture, and, in order to protect them in their peaceable possessions, he drew a rampart, and fixed a train of garrisons between them and their northern neighbors, thus cutting off the ruder and more barren parts of the island and securing the Roman province from the invasion of a fierce and necessitous enemy.

In 1848 she made an attempt to do so by peaceable means, and a national Parliament actually assembled at Frankfurt to frame a constitution for the whole country.

Whatever may be the truth in this matter, neither the German nor the French nor our own Government can then have abandoned the effort at peaceable settlement.

Roderic, the chief monarch of the island, was foiled in different actions; the Prince of Ossory was obliged to submit, and give hostages for his peaceable behaviour; and Dermot, not content with being restored to his kingdom of Leinster, projected the dethroning of Roderic, and aspired to the sole dominion over the Irish.

Anxious to shorten the war, and assured that Santa Anna was desirous of negotiating; warned, moreover, by neutrals and others, that the hostile occupation of the capital would destroy the last chance of peaceable accommodation and rouse the Mexican spirit to resistance all over the country, the American general consented, too generously perhaps, to offer an armistice to his vanquished foe.

It might be some peaceable merchant, some poor man from the countryside.

While the two armies were in presence of each other, a commissioner from Mendoza endeavored to effect a peaceable arrangement between their chiefs.

The islanders accordingly behaved in a peaceable manner, and sold our people such provisions as they had to spare.

It is the condition of all peaceable intercourse between man and man; and it is destroyed by anything that openly and manifestly militates against this peaceable intercourse, anything, accordingly, which entails punishment at the hands of the law, always supposing that the punishment is a just one.

"We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as us to escape.

3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.

He is the most calm, peaceable writer you ever read.

Even a peaceable fella like himself, not out after gore at all, but after an Orange Groveeven he, once he put onHe laughed out loud at his childishness, and then grew grave.

However, one of the Sophomores, a very quiet, peaceable fellow, just stepped out of the crowd, and, running straight at the groom, as he stood there, sparring away, struck him with the sole of his foot, a straight blow, as if it had been with his fist,and knocked him heels over head and senseless, so that he had to be carried off from the field.

She had a full passenger list, nearly 400 people, peaceable folk all, just about such as may be found any day aboard a Staten Island ferry boat.

Meanwhile, while the peaceable fruits are growing and ripening, may God help you through the grievous time that must passa grievous time in which you have my warm sympathy.

But they will be sure to do so if there is a Law, armed with the force to be their schoolmaster towards peaceable habits.

I and some few more about the Town, may give you a peaceable hearing: yet, assure yourselves!

When he sent messengers to inform her how sorry he felt for his past abuse, she said she feared it was only some wicked plot to entice her away from the peaceable home she had found.

The dreams of glory by conquest belonged to the days gone by, but in the fields of peaceable industries she has attained a greatness which the world begins to realize.

Andy's a peaceable lad; and he'll be quiet if he's let alone.

AND HER CAT Dame Trot and her cat Led a peaceable life, When they were not troubled With other folks' strife.