| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...desisted from his project. We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, 5O all the rest. I came not here armed at all points viilh law cases and acts of parliament; with the... | |
| Statesmen - 1824 - 518 pages
...that this kingdom has MO right to lay a tax upon the colonies. We are told that America is obstinate, almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to mil the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments... | |
| Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1824 - 524 pages
...from his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. / 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 to make... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1825 - 450 pages
...of his speech he said, " We are told America is obstinate — America is in open rebellion. Sir, 1 rejoice that America has resisted; three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I am no courtier of America. I maintain that Pai liarnent has a right to bind, to restrain... | |
| William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...had to tax them. Mr Pitt denied the right, and in the warmth of debate did not hesitate to exclaim, " 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 to make... | |
| William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1826 - 318 pages
...excited, u 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...would have 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... | |
| Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 312 pages
...Dated 1 But I desire to know when they were made slaves. I hear it said, that America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. 33. " The honorable member has said, for he is fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
| Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 490 pages
...emancipated ? But I desire to know when they were made slaves. I hear it said, that America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. " The honourable member has said, for he is fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...contained in the book. One emphatic sentence rung from one end of our continent to the other — " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would haye been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. " Although an abridgment of this speech might... | |
| David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 474 pages
...to tax them. Mr. Pitt denied the right, and in the warmth of debate did not hesitate to exclaim, " 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 to make... | |
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