 | Henry Bidleman Bascom - 1845 - 384 pages
...sufficient to reply to the charge, as did Edmund Burke to a similar charge in the British Parliament : "the people of the Southern colonies of America, are...attached to liberty, than those to the Northward." We are tempted again to ask, why the South is denounced with such unsparing bitterness for doing only... | |
 | George Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott - 1846 - 606 pages
...Edmund Burke,in a speech at the commencement of the war, that the people of the southern colonies were much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn...attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such will all masters of slaves be, who are not slaves themselves.' These sentiments of a prime agent of... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...furthermore, applying this principle to the case of the American Colonies, "that the people of the Southern are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than the Northern." Bryan Edwards also observes of the West Indies, prior to the era of emancipation, that,... | |
 | 1851 - 748 pages
...Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. These people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...it; but I can not alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles;' 5 and such will... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...; but I can not alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors: such, in our days, were the Poles;'6 and such will... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 pages
...Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. These people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such wilt be... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...; but I can not alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles;15 and such will... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - 1852 - 90 pages
...— but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths — such were our Gothic ancestors — such, in our days, were the Poles — and such... | |
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The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. 
