Conciliation with the ColoniesAllyn and Bacon, 1894 - 100 Seiten |
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... taken its flight forever , we are at this very instant nearly as free to choose a plan for our American Gov- ernment as we were on the first day of the session . If , Sir , we incline to the side of conciliation , we are not 20 at all ...
... taken its flight forever , we are at this very instant nearly as free to choose a plan for our American Gov- ernment as we were on the first day of the session . If , Sir , we incline to the side of conciliation , we are not 20 at all ...
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... taken as an occasion of char- ging us with a predetermined discontent , which nothing could satisfy ; whilst we accused every measure of vigor as cruel , and every proposal of lenity as weak and irreso- lute . The public , he said ...
... taken as an occasion of char- ging us with a predetermined discontent , which nothing could satisfy ; whilst we accused every measure of vigor as cruel , and every proposal of lenity as weak and irreso- lute . The public , he said ...
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... taken the liberty of observing to you , some ground . But I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done . Indeed , Sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a 35 firm and ...
... taken the liberty of observing to you , some ground . But I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done . Indeed , Sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a 35 firm and ...
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... taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of in- habitants of our own European blood and color , besides 20 at least five hundred thousand ...
... taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of in- habitants of our own European blood and color , besides 20 at least five hundred thousand ...
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... taken on the export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 , stood thus : - Exports to North America and the West Indies . £ 483,265 To Africa 86,665 35 38 £ 569,930 In the year 1772 , which I take as a 10 ...
... taken on the export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 , stood thus : - Exports to North America and the West Indies . £ 483,265 To Africa 86,665 35 38 £ 569,930 In the year 1772 , which I take as a 10 ...
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Seite 15 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Seite 15 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 73 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Seite 72 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Seite 21 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves.
Seite 23 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers, which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 74 - By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Seite 15 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Seite 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Seite 15 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.