 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 701 pages
...throwing impediments in their way as they now do, should hold out lures for their trade and alliance. . . The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations)...stand as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. . . It is by the cement of interest alone we can be held together." (Washington... | |
 | James R. Gaines - France - 2007 - 580 pages
...themselves with one or both, he added, "The Western settlers, (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot; the touch of a feather, would turn them any way. . . . The more communications are opened to [them], the closer we bind that... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1864 - 1200 pages
...with both, or either of those powers Î It needs not, in my opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The "western settlers, I speak now from my own observations, stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a pivot could turn them any way, until the Spaniards, very unwisely, as I think, threw difficulties in... | |
 | Joseph Macaulay Lowe - Cumberland Road - 1924 - 260 pages
...English again by the highway of the lakes and the St. Lawrence." "The western settlers, he declared, stand as it were upon a pivot, the touch of a feather would turn them away." "He returned home to push again with a renewed vigor the project which for now... | |
 | Ohio - 1913 - 582 pages
...opinion the gift of Prophecy to foretell. The Western settlers, (I speak now from my own observation), stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way." Again speaking of the proposed canal, he says, "The Western inhabitants would... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2000 - 528 pages
...[C]ommercial connec150 tions of all others, are most difficult to dissolve. . . . The Western Settlers . . . stand as it were upon a pivot — the touch of a feather would almost incline them any way — [looking] down the Mississippi . . . [they see their goods may... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1879 - 716 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. "The western states (I speak now from my own observation) stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. They have looked down the Mississippi, until the Spaniards, very impolitically,... | |
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The western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. 
