 | English periodicals - 1838 - 722 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1839 - 524 pages
...Englishman must desire. " I hear it said that America is obstinate, America is almost in open *«bel]ion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honourable member has said also, for he is fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 488 pages
...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 Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - France - 1839 - 476 pages
...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 !" —... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1839 - 1184 pages
...occasion, " We are told that America is obstinate — that America is almost in open rebellion ; Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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 - United States - 1840 - 520 pages
...hearts, our hands, the tyranny with which we are menaced. 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 honorable member has said also, for he ia fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...profited ; he ought to have profited ; he ought to have desisted from his project " ' America,' he says, ' is almost in open rebellion ;' I rejoice that America...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 pages
...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 - United States - 1840 - 342 pages
...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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...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 book doubled... | |
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America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. 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... 
