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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. "
Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons - Page 37
by Theodore Parker - 1855
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Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the ..., Volume 2

William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.), William Stanhope Taylor - Europe - 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...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed...
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Correspondence of William Pitt, Volume 2

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 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...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 7

English periodicals - 1838 - 750 pages
...Commons and the public, by declaring; " I rejoice that " the Canadians have resisted ! Half a million 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"\" Similar opinions...
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Correspondence of William Pitt, Volume 2

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 544 pages
...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. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - France - 1839 - 476 pages
...of " the obstinacy of America," said " That she was almost in open rebellion." Mr. Pitt exclaimed, " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest !" —...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III.

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 488 pages
...of " the obstinacy of America," said " That she was almost in open rebellion." Mr. Pitt exclaimed, " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest !" —...
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Annual Register, Volume 80

Edmund Burke - History - 1839 - 1184 pages
...occasion, " We are told that America is obstinate — that America is almost in open rebellion ; Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as to submit to be slaves, would have been fit to make slaves of the rest." This was the language then...
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History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America, Volume 1

Carlo Botta - United States - 1840 - 520 pages
...we are menaced. I hear it said that — America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honorable member...
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Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Volume 2

William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...he ought to have desisted from his project " ' America,' he says, ' is almost in open rebellion ;' I rejoice that America has resisted ; three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to consent to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. Why did the gentleman...
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The History of England, from the Accession to the Decease of King George the ...

John Adolphus - 1840 - 652 pages
...project. The gentleman tells us America is ob" stinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I re" joice that America has resisted. Three millions of " people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as volun" tarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit in" struments to make slaves of the rest....
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