 | 1853 - 518 pages
...be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves." " TFes'e people of the southern (American) colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher...attached to liberty, than those of the northward." And from the time of Burke down to the present day, the Southern States have always borne the same... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 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. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors : such in... | |
 | 1853 - 508 pages
...be all 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 stubborn spirit, atta«hed to liberty, than those of the northward." And from the time of Burke down to the present... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 240 pages
...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. Such were all the ancient commonwealths — such were our Gothic ancestors — such,... | |
 | 1857 - 528 pages
...as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is , so ; and those 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... | |
 | 1910 - 964 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.' In Lee, no pride, but virtue all; not liberty for himself alone, but for others,... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much, iuore strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn. spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward." Burke's reasoning was unhappily sound. All the great nations of antiquity who fought... | |
 | E. N. Elliott, David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge - 1860 - 934 pages
...pride as virtue in it; but I can not 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. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
 | E. N. Elliott - 1860 - 1310 pages
...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 in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
..."5re"much more strongly, and with an 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 in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such... | |
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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. 
