Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 - Great Britain |
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... authority , which serve in some degree , to mitigate the fierceness of unrestrained power , and counteract the evils of which it is natu- rally productive ; but when it comes into the posses- sion of the base and the vulgar , the evils ...
... authority , which serve in some degree , to mitigate the fierceness of unrestrained power , and counteract the evils of which it is natu- rally productive ; but when it comes into the posses- sion of the base and the vulgar , the evils ...
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... authority , and I appeal to it the more willingly , be- cause it was written long before the abolition of the slave trade had become the subject of publick dis- cussion . But I frankly acknowledge that the consideration of the planter's ...
... authority , and I appeal to it the more willingly , be- cause it was written long before the abolition of the slave trade had become the subject of publick dis- cussion . But I frankly acknowledge that the consideration of the planter's ...
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... authority , what seve- rer vengeance could he inflict than our successful propagation of these accursed maxims ? Consider what effects would follow from their universal preva- lence ; what scenes should we soon behold around us : in ...
... authority , what seve- rer vengeance could he inflict than our successful propagation of these accursed maxims ? Consider what effects would follow from their universal preva- lence ; what scenes should we soon behold around us : in ...
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... authority to prevent the importation of slaves , when he allows us an internal authority ; an authority with respect to the educa- tion of children , the emancipation of slaves , and the Lord knows what ? Sir , the house begins to see ...
... authority to prevent the importation of slaves , when he allows us an internal authority ; an authority with respect to the educa- tion of children , the emancipation of slaves , and the Lord knows what ? Sir , the house begins to see ...
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... authority . Now , sir , if the number of them proves , on inquiry , to be such that it is impossible to believe they have been all guilty even of any crime , much less of crimes de- serving so great a punishment as perpetual slavery ...
... authority . Now , sir , if the number of them proves , on inquiry , to be such that it is impossible to believe they have been all guilty even of any crime , much less of crimes de- serving so great a punishment as perpetual slavery ...
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Page 42 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 381 - As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely.
Page 388 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Page 377 - I rise, my lords, to declare my sentiments on this most solemn and serious subject. It has imposed a load upon my mind, which, I fear, nothing can remove ; but which impels me to endeavour its alleviation, by a free and unreserved communication of my sentiments.
Page 379 - Paris they transact the reciprocal interests of America and France. Can there be a more mortifying insult? Can even our ministers sustain a more humiliating disgrace ? Do they dare to resent it? Do they presume even to hint a vindication of their honor, and the dignity of the state, by requiring the dismission of the plenipotentiaries of America...
Page 411 - His Majesty is persuaded that the unremitting industry with which our enemies persevere in their avowed design of effecting the separation of Ireland from this kingdom, cannot fail to engage the particular attention of parliament ; and his Majesty recommends it...
Page 385 - You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Page 382 - To call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman savage of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My Lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character — it is a violation of the constitution — I believe it is against law.