The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments... Memorials and Correspondence - Seite 106von Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - 1853 - 480 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 Seiten
...calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate ; America...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I come... | |
| Charles James Fox - 1853 - 900 Seiten
...a texture that the intervention of any unforeseen circumstance broke them to pieces, and with • " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest !" —... | |
| 1854 - 576 Seiten
...1786. — Earl of Chatham. this House imputed as a crime. But the imputation shall not discourage me. The Gentleman tells us, America is obstinate ; America...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I come... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1855 - 646 Seiten
...together, the " great commoner " said, — every boy knew the passage by heart when I went to school, — "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." The Ministry still proposed... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1856 - 722 Seiten
...exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might and ought to have profited. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate ; America...rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of slaves, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 526 Seiten
...of " the obstinacy of America," said "that she was almost in open rebellion." Mr. Pitt exclaimed, " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest!" —... | |
| Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1856 - 528 Seiten
...of " the obstinacy of America," said " that she was almost in open rebellion." Mr. Pitt exclaimed, " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest!" —... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 472 Seiten
...gentleman who calumniates it might and ought to have profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate ; America...open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted." At the word, the whole house started as though their hands had been joined, and an electric spark had... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 Seiten
...gentleman who calumniates it might and ought to have profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate; America...open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted." At the word, the whole house started as though their hands had been joined, and an- electric spark... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 Seiten
...legislative power. Taxes are the voluntary gift or grant of tho commons alone." "I rejoice," ho said, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to become slaves, would have been fit instruments to make alavés of the rest." And Colonel Barré declared... | |
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