 | Salma Hale - 1830 - 330 pages
...were made slaves. I hear it said, that America is obstinate ( America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. 33. " The honorable member has said, for he is fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
 | William Shepherd - 1834 - 298 pages
...Atlantic. ' The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I REJOICE THAT AMERICA HAS RESISTED. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest of their fellow subjects.' Thus did Mr. Pitt plead the cause of the colonies with all the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 878 pages
...felt, when giving voice to these words in the British Parliament in 1776: " I rejoice that America tins resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all...the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to Hlavery, would have been fit instruments 10 make slave* of the rest." So I do rejoice that in the great... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...pp. 83—85. * I rejoice that America has resisted,' was the bold declaration of the great Pitt. ' Three millions of people so dead to all the ' feelings...would ' have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest of their fel' low subjects.' Contemplating the astonishing growth of the American Republic,... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1837 - 508 pages
...which we are menaced. I hear it said that — Americais obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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 pages
...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...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Although an abridgment of this speech might give some satisfaction to our readers, we abstain... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 pages
...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 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...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-book... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.), William Stanhope Taylor - 1838 - 532 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...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-book... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1838 - 740 pages
..."a Mr. Pitt" — said upon that occasion :--We are told that America is obstinate — that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America...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... | |
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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. 
