| Salma Hale - United States - 1830 - 330 pages
...slaves. 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. 33. " The honorable member has said, for he is fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 600 pages
...speech, he said, " We are told America is obstinate — America isin open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America, has resisted; three millions of people...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I am no courtier of America. I maintain that parliament has a right to bind, to restrain... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 608 pages
...speech, he said, " Wu are told America is obstinate — America ia in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice thai America has resisted; three millions of people so...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I am no courtier of America. I maintain that parliament has a right to bind, to restrain... | |
| William Shepherd - United States - 1834 - 298 pages
...' The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I REJOICE THAT AMERICA HAS RESISTED. Three millions of people,...have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest of their fellow subjects.' Thus did Mr. Pitt plead the cause of the colonies with all the fervor of... | |
| Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1834 - 386 pages
...are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that Jlmerica has resisted; three millions of people so dead to...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I came not G here armed at all points with law cases and acts of parliament, with the... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 878 pages
...felt, when giving voice to these words in the British Parliament in 1776: " I rejoice that America tins resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all...the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to Hlavery, would have been fit instruments 10 make slave* of the rest." So I do rejoice that in the great... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...America is obstinate" — he proceeded — •' that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, 1 rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."1 Deprecating any attempt to execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " I know the valour... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...America is obstinate" — he proceeded — " that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, 1 rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."1 Deprecating any attempt to execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " t know the valour... | |
| 1836 - 558 pages
...pp. 83—85. * I rejoice that America has resisted,' was the bold declaration of the great Pitt. ' Three millions of people so dead to all the ' feelings...have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest of their fel' low subjects.' Contemplating the astonishing growth of the American Republic, — that... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...contained In the hook. One emphatic sentence rung from one end of our continent to the other—"I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Although an abridgment of this speech might give some satisfaction to our readers, we abstain from... | |
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