I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. Freedom National; Slavery Sectional - Página 64de Charles Sumner - 1852 - 78 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| William Smyth - 1840 - 514 páginas
...resisted ; three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to consent to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham ? He might have taken a higher example... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 páginas
...from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 páginas
...exclaimed, — "The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He said that, in all our wants of money, no minister since the Revolution had ever thought... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 640 páginas
..."Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the principles of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest ;" and Lord Camden said — " I repeat it, and will maintain it to my last hour, that taxation and... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 538 páginas
..." &r, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the principles of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest;" and Lord Camden said, " I will repeat it, and will maintain it to my last hour, that taxation and representation... | |
| John Niles Hubbard - 1842 - 322 páginas
...replies to this — " I hear it said that America is obstinate. America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honorable gentleman has said also, for he has been fluent in words of bitterness, that... | |
| Mary Bowley - 1842 - 550 páginas
...exclaimed, " I rejoice that America has resisted : three millions of people so dead to all feeling of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,...fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." The power of the government was, however, too strong to permit an unconditional repeal ; the house therefore... | |
| William Grimshaw - 1843 - 348 páginas
...excited, " I rejoice," said he, " that America has resisted. Three-millions of people, so dead to all feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." In the East Indies, a new foe was added, to those already raised by commercial avidity and national... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1844 - 408 páginas
...people ; and how could any assembly give or grant what was not their own. " I rejoice," said he, " that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest."—" In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.... | |
| University magazine - 1845 - 776 páginas
...contemptible idea that ever entered the head of any man. It does not deserve a serious refutation. . ... I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." It is not probable that any course which might have been adopted could have much longer enabled us... | |
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