But do not you ever again attempt to coerce me by uttering threats of violence to the lady, for it will not do!
Lee and Jackson were firmly convinced that it was the wiser policy to give the enemy no time to reorganise and recruit, but to coerce him to battle before he had recovered from the defeat which he had sustained on the heights above Bull Run.
The majority of the Northern people held the Federal Government paramount, but, at the same time, they held that it had no power either to punish or coerce the individual States.
Though they had already failed to coerce England through cotton and had been played with and abandoned by Napoleon, they persisted in thinking that there was still a chance for a third chapter in their foreign affairs.
The bitterness inspired by these attempts to coerce the President may be gauged by a remark attributed to Mrs. Davis.
He was unable, despite the cotton famine, to coerce the English workingmen into siding with a country which they regarded, because of its support of slavery, as inimical to their interests.
Jonathan Worth said that they looked on both abolition and secession as children of the devil, and he put the responsibility for the secession of his State wholly upon Lincoln and his attempt to coerce the lower South.
Secretly planning to get the bribe money, they agree to make no attempt to coerce the vote of the people.
Have you not seen mills closed before election time so as to coerce men to vote as the mill owners directed?
The failures to coerce his discretion, even his unfairness and his infidelity to the policy of the administration in the distribution of the subordinate appointments, are by no means the strongest grounds on which to place his removal.
It means that we sanction the employment of brute force tocoerce men into their ranks.
You must therefore either coerce her if you go on, or you must in the long run, by showing that good government can come under the Home Rule Bill, try and win her over to the case of the rest of Ireland.
But will he have gained anything if he takes over these people and then applies for what he used to call--at all events his party used to call--the enemies of the people to come in and coerce them into obedience?
In other words, our political machine actually favors such laws, because they put a club in the hands of the machine through which it can not only levy political contributions, but coerce their victims into support of the machine.
Only two alternatives remained for the British nation to adopt--either to coerce the colonists to submission or to grant them their entire independence.
The Attempt to Coercethe Cotton States Impels Virginia to Secede 290 XLIII.
His great object was to secure an adjournment sine die of that body, without the adoption of an ordinance of secession, and without the assurance on his part that no attempt would be made to coerce the Cotton States.
It became a question not of slavery, or of the wisdom, or even the expediency of secession, but of the right of the National Government to coerce a sovereign state.
It was easy to coercethe Rump, without the appearance of using violence.
Mr. Redmond made a fine display of indignation at this refusal to coerce Ulster; and, in imitation of the Unionists in 1914, marched out of the House at the head of his party.
His plan was to resist every effort to coerce him to the last ditch.
His father had meant, obviously, that he, Robert, should help himcoerce his brother.
His business relations would necessarily go on as usual, since they were coupled with the welfare of the manufactory; certainly no attempt to coerce him would be attempted.
He said to me once that he would never have asked her to marry him if he had not been able to make up his mind to let her have her own way--never to coerce her.
She must be free, and I shall not attempt to coerce her.
In spite of this it is probably true that from this time the mass of the English people were against further attempts to coerce America.
The Congress must deal with each State only as a unit; it could not coerce a State; and it had no authority to tax or to coerce individuals.
We need not doubt that George thought it his right and also his duty to coerce America, or rather, as he said, the clamorous minority which was trying to force rebellion.
She does whatever she pleases; Government House is turned upside down, and, if any one tries to coerce her, she just runs away.
Some one proposed Jim's health and tried to coerce him into replying.
The moment any one tries to coerce me--it's like slapping your hand down on an open wound; you set every nerve quivering in rebellion.
If you choose to coerceme I must yield, for I am not yet ready to accept ruin.
You surely must remember how weak all those menaces of yours proved when you tried to coerce me again as you had done once before.
At least those who needlessly hoard it should not be allowed to use the fear of a monetary stringency, thus produced, to coerce public sentiment upon other questions.
