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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; such... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 106
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles;' 5 and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors: such, in our days, were the Poles;'6 and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles;15 and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the...
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The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors : such...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. " Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards...
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The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of ...

Slavery - 1853 - 508 pages
...liberty has always been more ardently desired by slaveholding communities. " Such " says Burke, '' were our Gothic ancestors ; such, in our days, were...masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves." " These people of the southern (American) colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...
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The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 240 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths — such were our Gothic ancestors —...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." In the course of my former remarks, Mr. President, I took occasion to deprecate, as one of the greatest...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 20

1854 - 788 pages
...was the case with " all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our day were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves." And with regard to a proposed enfranchisement of slaves, be declared that he "never could argue himseliinto...
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The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths — such were our Gothic ancestors —...such, in our days, were the Poles — and such will le all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles;15 and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 25

Literature - 1857 - 528 pages
...and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such...slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible."...
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