| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 páginas
...obstinacy of America,' said 'that she was almost in open rebellion.' Mr. Pitt exclaimed, 'I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves ol all the rest!' —... | |
| 1838 - 722 páginas
...Commons and the public, by declaring; "I rejoice that " the Canadians have resisted ! Half a million of people, so " dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submtt to " be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of " Ihe rest^" Similar opinions... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 460 páginas
...obstinacy of America," said " that she was almost in open rebellion." Mr. Pitt exclaimed, " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...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 Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 434 páginas
...obstinacy of America," said " That she was almost in open rebellion." Mr. Pitt exclaimed, "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...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!" —... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 1184 páginas
...We are told that America is obstinate — that America is almost in open rebellion ; Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as to submit to be slaves, would have been fit to make slaves of the rest." This was the language then... | |
| Carlo Botta - 1840 - 520 páginas
...menaced. I hear it said that — America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honorable member has said also, for he ia fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
| William Smyth - 1840 - 514 páginas
...to have desisted from his project " ' America,' he says, ' is almost in open rebellion ;' I rejoice that America has resisted ; three millions of people...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... | |
| John Adolphus - 1840 - 652 páginas
...project. The gentleman tells us America is ob" stinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I re" joice that America has resisted. Three millions of " people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as volun" tarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit in" struments to make slaves of the rest.... | |
| William Grimshaw - 1840 - 342 páginas
...America. I rejoice that she has resisted. Three millions of people, so lost to every sense of virtue, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." The opposition could not be withstood: the repeal was carried in March; an event which... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 páginas
...— "The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...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 of taxing... | |
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