Motions were constantly made and passed in faculty meetings to drop Tate, and were as constantly vetoed by Mr. Washington on the plea of giving him one more chance.
The usual plea is that this is due to the intolerable burden of Negro education, and a general discouragement and inactivity is ascribed to this cause.
A plea for the baptism of infants, that they may not be damned.
The superstitious and arbitrary character of its intrinsic constituents, its irreconcilableness with science and philosophy, disprove, to all who dare honestly face the facts, every plea set up for it as an inspired revelation of truth.
Leigh had written many letters to her before, but never one with a plea like this.
The king concluded by inviting him to supper, but this the Athenian declined, on the plea that he must review the Ionian troops, with whom he was as yet but little acquainted, and withdrew.
In the present war that same Government has admitted and justified unspeakable atrocities under the plea of "military necessities.
My father is not an easy man to please, but he desires my happiness and will listen to my plea when the right hour comes.
And she ended gracefully with a plea for the continuance of the friendly regardwhich she had "always understood" to be the basis of their sympathy.
The plea was so absurd, that he was thrust on to his feet before he knew what he was about.
But he excused himself on the plea that he and Mabel had been intimate friends,--were still intimate friends, and that she was going away in a day or two.
But for myself, I am bound at last to put in the old plea with a determination that it shall be respected.
When Enistor retired to his library, Alice excused herself on the plea of a bad headache and went to her room.
Alice's boxes were taken into the house, and Julian departed in the car, declining to enter, on the pleathat father and daughter would have much to say to one another.
With this thousand pounds which you inherit, give Alice a few months in London on the plea that she requires a gay life to cheer her up.
The plea may perhaps be pressed in defense of Congress, that financial legislation, laggard as it was, ran before popular readiness to raise money by taxes.
This plea was an afterthought, a pretense, contradicted by the discussion of 1850 in its entire length and breadth.
Whatever specious plea might be made for the independent and separate sovereignty of the old thirteen States, the argument could not apply to Louisiana.
So conservative a statesman as Edward Everett, who had succeeded John Davis as senator from Massachusetts, pointed out the fallacy not to say the falsehood of the plea that the Compromise measures of 1850 required or involved this legislation.
He would not permit the plea of unsound mind to be made on his behalf, and to the end he behaved with that calm courage which always attracts respect and admiration.
If the hurt to Virginia were of a general character, which could not be specified or defined, her case might be passed over with the plea of damnum absque injurid.
The Confederacy had the plea of necessity for its course, but the jurisdiction of England for aiding and abetting the practice has not yet been presented.
But the plea carried with it a national guaranty and protection of slavery on the southern side of the line, and its effect would inevitably have been in a few years to divide the Republic from ocean to ocean.
This was the euphuistic plea of those Northern senators and representatives who had given dire offense to their constituents by voting for it.
Her climate was salubrious, and so temperate as to forbid the plea always used in justification of negro slavery in the Cotton States, that the white man could not perform agricultural labor.
The people had read with deep sympathy the tender pleato the South contained in his Inaugural address.
Mr. Washburne closed the debate with an impressive plea for the bill.
Still, women are barred by their very weakness from innumerable employments, and though they demand to vote, one never hears a very enthusiastic plea on their part to fight.
One would like to offer up a meek plea for originality were one not aware how unpopular it would be.
In conclusion, I wonder if I, as an exiled American sister, might make a plea to my American brethren?
I wish I could offer up an earnest plea for covered shoulders, at least for the aged!
That plea will not avail you to-day,' said the chieftain.
The plea may be made that he was apprehensive of duplicity on the part of the Mohawk chief, but this does not wholly excuse his conduct.
He reached Anglesey without incident, and there for the sake of example drove out the Minorite friars from the Abbey of Llanfaes near Beaumaris, on the plea that they were friends of Owen.
He turned the monks out on to the highway, under the plea that two or three of them had favoured Owen, and filled up the measure of desecration by stabling his horses at the high altar.
The aid, however, of a packed jury in Islington was invoked, who excused themselves for some manifestly outrageous decisions with the naive but unanswerable plea that if they did not hang the prisoners they would be hanged themselves.
The plea seems to have been a sound one, for the Franciscans were without doubt the one order of the clergy that favoured Welsh independence.
Our pursy Apollo Apollyon's tool; A small one, still of the crew By serpent Apollyon blest: His plea in apology, blindfold Fool.
And no sooner had he spoken the plea than the surprising thing happened.
Realizing the vice of the plea of the opponents of international copyright that cheap literature for a people is better than scrupulous honesty, they will not refuse to foreign authors the same protection to property that they demand.
In a small town in central New York a man arrested on the charge of swindling entered the plea that he was temporarily insane owing to the bite of the "kissing bug.
He asked for tonnage and poundage, less on the strength of his hereditary right to it, than on the plea of custom and necessity.
While this plea doubtless influenced the Canadian immigration authorities, it could not, of course, be stated as their reason for allowing the man his freedom.
Gerrit Smith, the famous abolitionist, was one of those who acted on behalf of the fugitive, and his plea made a strong impression.
It is, therefore, a plea for treating the Negroes as individuals and not as a single group, for fair treatment will not lead to amalgamation in as much as Christianity has not been known to promote that.
The plea of many is that we have no right to receive revelations, but if we do not receive revelations we do not have the oracles of God, and they who do not have His oracles are not His people.
Therefore, let no one turn against the cause of God, and take the road to destruction, on the plea that somebody has done wrong.
But with this Commission President Buchanan sent a proclamation charging the Saints with treason and other crimes, and then forgave them without an acknowledgement on their part, or a pleafor pardon.
Her passionate plea brought forth equally passionate applause from her young hearers,--for it was true.
