| Carlo Botta - 1837 - 508 ページ
...hearts, our hands, the tyranny with which we are menaced. I hear it said that — Americais obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...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... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 ページ
...those 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...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... | |
| George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 ページ
...British house of peers as an estate possessed of the one without the other.t " I rejoice," he said, "that America has resisted — three millions of people so dead to all * Parl. History, vol. xvi., col. have rights of taxation as well as 98. yourselves : rights which they... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 516 ページ
...profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...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... | |
| William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.), William Stanhope Taylor - 1838 - 532 ページ
...profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...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... | |
| 1838 - 892 ページ
...occasion : — " We are told that America is obstinate — that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." For the 3,000,000 let the House read 1,000,000, or even 500,000, and would not the same... | |
| 1838 - 750 ページ
...Commons and the public, by declaring; " I rejoice that " the Canadians have resisted ! Half a million of people, so " dead to all the feelings of liberty...been fit instruments to make slaves of " the rest"\" Similar opinions were expressed during the debates on the Canadian question, by Mr. Hume, Mr. Warburton... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1838 - 740 ページ
...occasion :--We are told that America is obstinate — that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to to be slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." l''or the three millions... | |
| 1838 - 596 ページ
...of ' the obstinacy of America,' said ' that she was almost in open rebellion.' Mr. Pitt exclaimed, ' I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to 'let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments ' lo make slaves of all the rest !'... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 ページ
...spoken of 'the obstinacy of America,' said 'that she was almost in open rebellion.' Mr. Pitt exclaimed, 'I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves ol all the rest!' —... | |
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