Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 - Great Britain |
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... observing man . I met with a curious proof of it the other day in a pamphlet , lately published in Carolina by a plan- ter , who was endeavouring , not apparently actuated by motives of justice and humanity , but of policy , to continue ...
... observing man . I met with a curious proof of it the other day in a pamphlet , lately published in Carolina by a plan- ter , who was endeavouring , not apparently actuated by motives of justice and humanity , but of policy , to continue ...
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... observe it is the peculiar merit of this plan , that though its full effects cannot be produced at once , we are all the while tending to their complete enjoyment , with a uniform and uninterrupted course . The slaves will daily grow ...
... observe it is the peculiar merit of this plan , that though its full effects cannot be produced at once , we are all the while tending to their complete enjoyment , with a uniform and uninterrupted course . The slaves will daily grow ...
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... observation which has been pressed rather strongly by them . If they can show that their proposition of a gradual abolition is more likely than ours to secure the object which we have in view ; that by proceeding gradually we shall ...
... observation which has been pressed rather strongly by them . If they can show that their proposition of a gradual abolition is more likely than ours to secure the object which we have in view ; that by proceeding gradually we shall ...
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... observation is extremely fortified by what fell from my honourable friend who spoke last . He has told you , sir , that if you will have patience with it for a few years , the slave trade must drop of itself , from the increasing ...
... observation is extremely fortified by what fell from my honourable friend who spoke last . He has told you , sir , that if you will have patience with it for a few years , the slave trade must drop of itself , from the increasing ...
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... observations were taken from documents which we have reason to judge authentick , and which carried on the face of them the conclusions I then sta- ted : they were the clear , simple , and obvious result of a careful examination which I ...
... observations were taken from documents which we have reason to judge authentick , and which carried on the face of them the conclusions I then sta- ted : they were the clear , simple , and obvious result of a careful examination which I ...
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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.