 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 pages
...project. We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion . Sir, / rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to have made slaves of all the rest." [After a very happy reply to some old law passages cited by Mr.... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 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 recommended wisdom and moderation towards America, and quoted two lines of a ballad by Prior—... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 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,...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... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 pages
...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,...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. But... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...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,...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. But on this... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 pages
...us," he burst forth, " that America is obstinate, that 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." " Great Britain," he added, " derived a profit of two millions a year from the colonies, and this was... | |
 | Robert Reid Howison - 1848 - 542 pages
...denounced the act, and pressed for its unconditional and immediate repeal. " I rejoice," he said, " that America has resisted : three millions of people...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."' In reply to Mr. Grenville's question, when the Colonists had been emancipated, he asked... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 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...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. I come... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1849 - 592 pages
...discourage me." "We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in 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." " The Americans have been wronged ! They have been driven to madness by injustice !... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1850 - 448 pages
...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,...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. But... | |
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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. 
