 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - History - 1867 - 636 pages
...northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our day were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." This description of slaveholders as a class is not strictly accurate; but we are dealing with men who... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - History - 1867 - 650 pages
...are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our day were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such iu our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 702 pages
...all the ancient commonwealths, such were our Gothic aucertors, and such in our day were the Poles ; such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves...such a people the haughtiness of domination combines itself with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." No stronger evidence of... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...who are free, are far more proud and jealous of their freedom; and that the haughtiness of dominion combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." This spirit was carried into the halls of national legislation, and its display was often offensive... | |
 | United States - 1863 - 302 pages
...canLBTTBB TO BET. HENRY WARD BEECHER. not alter the nature of man. The fact is so: and these people of tho Southern Colonies are much more strongly, and with...commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our Says, were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths...combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and reiiJirs it invincible. "Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes... | |
 | Charles Ingersoll - Democracy - 1875 - 310 pages
...all the ancient commonwealths; such " were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were " the Poles ; such will be all masters of slaves who " are not slaves...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." The mind must be diseased, or greatly deceived, to make a general defence of slavery ; but to us it... | |
 | Charles Ingersoll - History - 1875 - 298 pages
...much more strongly, " and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, at"tached to liberty than those to the northward. " Such were all the ancient commonwealths...Gothic ancestors; such in our days were " the Poles ; such will be all masters of slaves who " are not slaves themselves. In such a people the " haughtiness... | |
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The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such... 
