 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 434 pages
...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 - History - 1839 - 1184 pages
...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 - United States - 1840 - 520 pages
...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 - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...— "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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...project. The gentleman tells us, 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. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute book doubled... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 538 pages
..." &r, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the principles of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest;" and Lord Camden said, " I will repeat it, and will maintain it to my last hour, that... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 534 pages
...(afterward Earl of Chatham), and of Lord Camden, excited great attention. Pitt said, " Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the principles of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
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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 rest. 
