 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 ページ
...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... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 ページ
...from his project. We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion . Sir, / rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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.... | |
 | James Grahame - 1845 - 536 ページ
...obstinate," he proceeded, '"that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, / rejoice that ./Imcrica has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to...would 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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 ページ
...liberty of speech in that house, he exclaimed, — " 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." He recommended wisdom and moderation towards America, and quoted two lines of a ballad by Prior—... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 ページ
...; and he ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate, — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that...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... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 ページ
...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... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 ページ
...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... | |
 | Salma Hale - 1848 - 392 ページ
...know when they were made slaves.. I hear it paid, that America is obstinate ; America is almost in an open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted....would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. " A great deal has been said without doors, and more than is discreet, of the power, of... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1966 - 440 ページ
...Then, in language that resounded through the world : The gentleman tells us America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. If its millions of inhabitants had submitted, taxes would soon have been laid on Ireland ; and, if... | |
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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 the... 
