 | Hugh Murray - United States - 1844 - 408 pages
...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." — " In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 776 pages
...contemptible idea that ever entered the head of any man. It does not deserve a serious refutation. . ... I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." It is not probable... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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. I come not here armed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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. I come not here armed... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - Germans - 1845 - 686 pages
...from his project. We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion . Sir, / rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to have made slaves of all the rest." [After a... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...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...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honourable member... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1845 - 536 pages
...obstinate," he proceeded, '"that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, / rejoice that ./Imcrica 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 all the rest."1 Deprecating... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 pages
...his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate, — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted : three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of others. I come not here armed... | |
 | John Steven Watson - History - 1960 - 668 pages
...deceptive: ministers were at their last gasp. Their right wing had heard with 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 slaves, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Political Science - 1988 - 248 pages
...behind 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...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. "22 These warnings... | |
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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. 
