...likely to condemn insurrections in general. The key to his feelings is found in his indignant cry, ' How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' (1b.) He hated slavery as perhaps no man of his time hated it. While the Quakers, who were almost...

...312. the Aetat. 68.] The drivers of negroes. 201 the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny, he says, 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes'?' and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes, he asked, 'Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English"?'...

...See ante, ii. 27, 312. The drivers of negroes. the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny ', he says, 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes1?1 and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes, he asked, 'Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn...

...the subjugation of America would have meant the enslaving of Great Britain. " If slavery," he says, "be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear...loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes r "f If his opposition to the Americans was reprehensible, it must nevertheless be admitted that his...

...at the slave-trade, but at British Commerce. It was of .men such as these that Johnson said : — ' How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' Boswell's Johnson, iii. 201. At the same meeting it was resolved that there should be no exportation...

...continuation by Armstrong, p. 405. Dr. Johnson's rather insolent question was not altogether unwarranted : " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes ? " deemed and considered as servants for life, or slaves ; and that all servitude for life, or slavery...

...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his "Taxation no Tyranny,'1 he says, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes he asked, "Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English?"...

...slaves." Virginia and the Carolinas had shown impatience of oppression. " How is it," asked Johnson, " that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? The slaves should be set free ; they may be more grateful and honest than their masters," Lord North...

...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes,b he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick leam English...

...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " and in his conversation with Mr Wilkes he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English?"...