 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...a Mexican I would tell you, " Have /ou not room in your own country to bury ^our dead men ? If yon come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." Why, says the Chairman of this Committee >f Foreign Relations, it is the... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - United States - 1847 - 80 pages
...But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred millions in a few years, and we want room. If I were a Mexican I would tell you, "Have you not...come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, ui.li welcome you to hospitable graves. " Why, says the chairman of this Committee on Foreign Relations,... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - United States - 1859 - 534 pages
...But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred millions in a few years, and we want room. /If I were a Mexican I would tell you, "Have you not...room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If jou come into mine we will greet you with bloody_hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." Why,... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - United States - 1886 - 344 pages
...speech of great length and ability in the Senate, on the llth of February, 1847, used this expression : "If I were a Mexican I would tell you, have you not room in your own country for your dead men? If you" come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands to hospitable graves.".... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1868 - 806 pages
...But the Senator from Michigan says we will be two hundred million!* in a few years, and we want room. If I were a Mexican I would tell you, " Have you not room in your own country to bury voar dead men ? If you come into mine we thief, arraigned for stealing a horse, plea that it was the... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...course of proceeding in this matter ?" So Hon. Mr. Corwin represented the people of Mexico as saying : "Have you not room in your own country to bury your...will greet you — with bloody hands, and welcome you — to hospitable graves !" Such questions are not asked because they require an answer, but because... | |
 | Dakota Indians - 1901 - 772 pages
...Senator Oorwin, in the United States Senate, opposed the war with Mexico, and was credited with having said, "If I were a Mexican I would tell you : Have...mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves." Some foolish member of the House presented a petition asking for the resignation... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - Statesmen - 1875 - 424 pages
...millions, and we want room for them, therefore we must have California. If I were a Mexican I would ask,' Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead ? If you come to mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.' "... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - 1885 - 1084 pages
...of great length and ability in the Senate, on the llth of February, 1847, used this expression : " If I were a Mexican I would tell you, have you not room in your own country for your dead men ? If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands to hospitable graves."... | |
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If I were a Mexican I would tell you, " Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves. 
