 | Carlo Botta - 1845 - 508 страници
...tongues, our hearts, our hands, the tyranny with which we are menaced. I hear it said that — Americais obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honorable member has said also, for he is fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 776 страници
...contemptible idea that ever entered the head of any man. It does not deserve a serious refutation. . ... I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." It is not probable that any course which might have been adopted could have much longer enabled us... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 страници
...which we are menaced. I hear it said that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. / 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... | |
 | James Grahame - 1845 - 536 страници
...obstinate," he proceeded, '"that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, / rejoice that ./Imcrica has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to...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 valor of your troops... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 страници
...liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited ; he ought to have profited ; and he ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of others. I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 страници
...severely upon Grenville for complaining of the liberty of speech in that house, he exclaimed, — " The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He recommended wisdom and moderation towards America, and quoted two lines of a ballad by... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 522 страници
...of our fellow-subjects so lost to every sense of virtue, as voluntari y to give up their liberties, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. Assert the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies in as strong terms as can be devised... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 страници
...allowed to speak once more. " The gentleman tells us," he burst forth, " that America is obstinate, that America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." " Great Britain," he added, " derived a profit of two millions a year from the colonies,... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 страници
...the people; and how could any assembly give or grant what was not their own. "I rejoice," said he, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 страници
...the people ; and how could any assembly give or grant what was not their own. "I rejoice," said he, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." — " In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to... | |
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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... 
