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" America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. 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... "
Annals of Great Britain: From the Ascension of George III, to the Peace of ... - Page 126
by Thomas Campbell - 1807
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History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as Colonies to the ...

Salma Hale - United States - 1848 - 392 pages
...know when they were made slaves.. I hear it paid, that America is obstinate ; America is almost in an open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted....would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. " A great deal has been said without doors, and more than is discreet, of the power, of...
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A History of Virginia: Containing the history of the colony and of the state ...

Robert Reid Howison - Virginia - 1848 - 542 pages
...denounced the act, and pressed for its unconditional and immediate repeal. " I rejoice," he said, " that America has resisted : three millions of people...fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."' In reply to Mr. Grenville's question, when the Colonists had been emancipated, he asked when had they...
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The Pictorial History of the American Revolution: With a Sketch of the Early ...

Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...the people ; and how could any assembly give or grant what was not their own. "I rejoice," said he, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...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...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...exercise. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have...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...
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The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical ..., Volume 9

Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 476 pages
...reflecting severely upon Grenville for complaining of the liberty of speech in that house, he exclaimed, — "The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He recommended wisdom and moderation towards America, and quoted two lines of a ballad by...
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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...him to the field, he would fight him on every foot of it. " The gentleman tells us," he said, " that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion....would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Alluding to the alleged strength of Great Britain and the weakness of America, he said,...
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The pictorial field-book of the Revolution; or ..., Volume 1; Volume 122

Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...him to the field, he would fight him on every foot of it. " The gentleman tells us," he said, " that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion....would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Alluding to the alleged strength of Great Britain and the weakness of America, he said,...
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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...field, he would fight him on every foot of it. " The gentleman tells us," he said, " that America iť obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Alluding to the alleged strength of Great Britain and the weakness of America, he said,...
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Rule and Misrule of the English in America

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canada History To 1763 (New France) - 1851 - 386 pages
...their consent." " We are told America is obstinate," he said, " and is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." " The Americans have been wronged ! They have teen driven to madness by injustice ! Will you punish...
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The English in America, Volume 2

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - United States - 1851 - 398 pages
...their consent." " We are told America is obstinate," he said, " and is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." " The Americans have been wronged ! They have been driven to madness by injustice ! Will you punish...
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