 | Samuel Romilly - 1840 - 468 pages
...seen cited in some of their pamphlets a passage of Burke's, in which he says that " Masters of slaves are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom," he adds, " is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - 1840 - 466 pages
...seen cited in some of their pamphlets a passage of Burke's, in which he says that " Masters of slaves are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom," he adds, "is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 pages
...than in those to the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolina! they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case, in any part of...by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the...only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad 14 In Chapman's... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the...only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad "111 Chapman's... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - 1852 - 90 pages
...than in those to. the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case, in any part of...only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 pages
...than in those to the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the...the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom to them is not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 pages
...than in those to the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the...the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom to them is not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom as... | |
 | None - 1852 - 492 pages
...day, the Southern States have always borne the same honorable distinction. Burke says, " it is because freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege." Another, and perhaps more efficient cause of this, is the perfect spirit of equality so prevalent among... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of ilavts. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who artfree are by far the most proud and jealous ol their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment,... | |
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There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas... 
