...the strangest lines. Johnson, for example, having remarked as early as 1769 that the Americans were a race of convicts and "ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging", went on to write his extremely violent pamphlet Taxation no Tyranny, and by 1778 they had become "Rascals...

...against convict transportation, London's Dr. Samuel Johnson roared in disgust to James Boswell, "Why they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging!"63 PERPETUAL SLAVES INDENTURED servants generally served six-year...

...prejudice against the American brethren - whom he had always considered 'a race of convicts, [who] ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging' - into a pamphlet entitled Taxation No "tyranny. Britain had founded, provided for and protected its...

...in his splenetic hostility towards them ('I am willing to love all mankind, except an American . . . Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging'). Indeed, the sheer number of violent arguments he had on the subject, many recorded by his biographer...

...tells us, in our home, while getting a couple of our own titles, that Dr. Johnson said of us Americans: "They are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Ivy says he said, of our cries for freedom: "How is it that...

...recall the words of the great English lexicographer, who, in 1769, in speaking of the American colonies, exclaimed, 'Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them, short of hanging.' The Abbe Raynal, writing in the latter part of the last...

...recall the words of the great English lexicographer who, in 1769, in speaking of the American colonies, exclaimed. " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.', The Abbe Raynal, writing in the latter part of the last...

...of the great English lexicographer who, in 1769, in speaking to a friend of the American colonies, exclaimed : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." The Abbe" Raynal, writing in the latter part of the last...

...la bête noire was America. Dr. Campbell asserts that Dr. Johnson said of the Americans in 1 769, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." § He is pretty strong against foreigners in general. " What...