 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 pages
...personal liberty of their fellows. Mr. Burke pointed out this anomaly, that " where slaves are held in any part of the world, those who are free are by...only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. . . . In such a case the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pages
...in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in ¡my ing blown about by every wind of fashionable doctrine. I really did not think Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 pages
...personal liberty of their fellows. Mr. Burke pointed out this anomaly, that " where slaves are held in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud 1 Palfrey's History of New England, book ii. chap. 1. and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pages
...than in those to the North-ward. 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 and general... | |
 | 1878 - 446 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 os broad and general... | |
 | Victor Alvin Ketcham - 1914 - 400 pages
...opinion, fully counterbalances this difference. ... It is, that in Virginia they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the more proud and jealous of their freedom. . . . Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1915 - 154 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 and general... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 376 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 and general... | |
 | Authur Huntington Nason - 1917 - 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...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 and general... | |
 | 1894 - 790 pages
...Conciliation with America he said : " In Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. When this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are 531 by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but... | |
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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... 
