 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 strani
...menaced. I hear it said that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. / rejoice that America has RESISTED. Three millions of people, so...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... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 strani
...project. We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion . Sir, / rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so...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.... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 strani
...The gentleman tells us America is obstinate, — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted : three millions of people, so...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 strani
...The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 strani
...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, so...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 strani
...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, so...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.... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 strani
...burst forth, " that America is obstinate, that America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so...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 Steven Watson - 1960 - 668 strani
...alarm Pitt declare that 'I rejoice that America has resisted: three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.' The duke of Grafton, on the other wing, had been more than ever convinced that the administration could... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 1988 - 248 strani
...William Pitt's famous plea for the repeal of the Stamp Act. "I rejoice, " Pitt told the Commons, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people so...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. "22 These warnings did not bestir many Britons, but on the colonial side of the Atlantic... | |
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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. 
