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" The fact is so : and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ;... "
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America ... - Page 124
by Edmund Burke - 2008 - 600 pages
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gntliie ancestors; such in our days were the Pole«; «nd such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. To impoverish the colonies in general, tnd ia particular to arreet t!ie noble course of their marine...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...all the ancient commonwealths; such were our (íotliic ancestors; such in our days were the Pole?; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not...such a people the haughtiness of domination combines wiih the •spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and render« it invincible. To impoverish the colonies...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealthii; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; -ml such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such, a people he h.ughtinrss...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 15

Scotland - 1824 - 792 pages
...the exterior of servitude, liberty looks among them like something that is more noble and liberal. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were...such, in our days, were the Poles ; and such will ever be, all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In them, haughtiness combines with the...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...people of the Southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached "to liberty, than those to the Northward....days, were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slave* who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination, combined with...
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A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies, Or, An ...

Alexander Barclay - Black people - 1827 - 596 pages
...exterior of ser' vitude, liberty looks among them like something ' that is more noble and liberal. Such were all ' the ancient commonwealths ; such were...masters of slaves, ' who are not slaves themselves. In them haughti' ness combines with the spirit of freedom, forti' fies it, and renders it invincible.'...
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The Modern Traveller: A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and ...

Josiah Conder - Canada - 1830 - 360 pages
...people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward....freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." * It is obvious, however, that this aristocratic spirit of independence can, only under accidental...
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North America, Part 2

Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 362 pages
...the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached fo liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." * It is obvious, however, that this aristocratic spirit of independence can, only under accidental...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...people of the Southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the Northward....days, were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slave* who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination, combined with...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 33

Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...people of the Southern Colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward....freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." His eloquent observation on the general taste for legal studies which predominated in America, is true...
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