 | William Drayton - 1836 - 324 pages
...pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so: and these people of the ' southern colonies are much more strongly, and with...commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves ivho are not slaves themselves. In such... | |
 | 1836 - 444 pages
...pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so: and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with...commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves toho are not slaves themselves. In such... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - 1838 - 222 pages
...illustrious statesman and orator of the British House of Commons has declared, that the people of -the South are much more strongly, and with a higher and more...stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those of the North; as in such a people the haughtiness of domination, combined with the spirit of freedom, fortifies... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 334 pages
...pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and the people of the Southern Colonies are much more strongly, and with...more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and the people of the Southern Colonies are much more strongly, and with...more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 pages
...pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward." The last cause of the disobedient spirit in the colonies was their distance from... | |
 | Henry Bidleman Bascom - 1845 - 384 pages
...Burke to a similar charge in the British Parliament : "the people of the Southern colonies of America, are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the Northward." We are tempted again to ask, why the South is denounced with such unsparing bitterness... | |
 | George Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott - 1846 - 606 pages
...Edmund Burke,in a speech at the commencement of the war, that the people of the southern colonies were much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such will all masters of slaves be, who are not slaves themselves.' These sentiments... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...furthermore, applying this principle to the case of the American Colonies, "that the people of the Southern are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than the Northern." Bryan Edwards also observes of the West Indies, prior to the era of emancipation, that,... | |
 | 1851 - 748 pages
...It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. These people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
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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. 
