| Salma Hale - 1848 - 392 lehte
...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... | |
| Robert Reid Howison - 1848 - 542 lehte
...denounced the act, and pressed for its unconditional and immediate repeal. " I rejoice," he said, " that America has resisted : three millions of people...fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."' In reply to Mr. Grenville's question, when the Colonists had been emancipated, he asked when had they... | |
| Robert Sears - 1850 - 448 lehte
...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... | |
| 1851 - 560 lehte
...exercise. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have...would have 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... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 476 lehte
...reflecting 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... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 594 lehte
...him to the field, he would fight him on every foot of it. " The gentleman tells us," he said, " that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion....would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Alluding to the alleged strength of Great Britain and the weakness of America, he said,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 lehte
...him to the field, he would fight him on every foot of it. " The gentleman tells us," he said, " that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion....would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Alluding to the alleged strength of Great Britain and the weakness of America, he said,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 606 lehte
...field, he would fight him on every foot of it. " The gentleman tells us," he said, " that America i» obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Alluding to the alleged strength of Great Britain and the weakness of America, he said,... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1851 - 386 lehte
...their consent." " We are told America is obstinate," he said, " and is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." " The Americans have been wronged ! They have teen driven to madness by injustice ! Will you punish... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1851 - 398 lehte
...their consent." " We are told America is obstinate," he said, " and is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." " The Americans have been wronged ! They have been driven to madness by injustice ! Will you punish... | |
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