 | Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 540 pages
...our days were the Poles ; and such " will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves them" selves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination " combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, arid " renders it invincible." Throughout the cotton belt, where, at the blast of a horn, the master... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 582 pages
...more stubborn spir it, 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient competency among your people which are always to...compassion, and preventing the weight of taxation from 5. Permit me, sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part toward... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient tacking some of those principles, or deriding some...experiments, I do not mean to preclude the fullest inquiry. 5. Permit me, sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part toward... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. . . . In such a case the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." And this sagacious observer recognized the fact, and sought to have Parliament recognize it also, that,... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...liberty, than those to the North-ward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothick ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our Colonies, which contributes no mean part towards... | |
 | Medicine - 1890 - 790 pages
...commonwealths, such were our Gothic ancestors, and such in our day, the Poles; and such will be all masters who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the...freedom, fortifies it and renders it invincible." Men of Southern birth and Southern rearing were the successful generals in the war of 1812, and the... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 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...and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not 135 slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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 circumstanee in our Colonies, which contributes no mean pai't towards... | |
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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... 
