Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... authority , which serve in some degree , to mitigate the fierceness of unrestrained power , and counteract the evils of which it is natu- rally productive ; but when it comes into the posses- sion of the base and the vulgar , the evils ...
... authority , which serve in some degree , to mitigate the fierceness of unrestrained power , and counteract the evils of which it is natu- rally productive ; but when it comes into the posses- sion of the base and the vulgar , the evils ...
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... authority , and I appeal to it the more willingly , be- cause it was written long before the abolition of the slave trade had become the subject of publick dis- cussion . But I frankly acknowledge that the consideration of the planter's ...
... authority , and I appeal to it the more willingly , be- cause it was written long before the abolition of the slave trade had become the subject of publick dis- cussion . But I frankly acknowledge that the consideration of the planter's ...
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... authority , what seve- rer vengeance could he inflict than our successful propagation of these accursed maxims ? Consider what effects would follow from their universal preva- lence ; what scenes should we soon behold around us : in ...
... authority , what seve- rer vengeance could he inflict than our successful propagation of these accursed maxims ? Consider what effects would follow from their universal preva- lence ; what scenes should we soon behold around us : in ...
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... authority to prevent the importation of slaves , when he allows us an internal authority ; an authority with respect to the educa- tion of children , the emancipation of slaves , and the Lord knows what ? Sir , the house begins to see ...
... authority to prevent the importation of slaves , when he allows us an internal authority ; an authority with respect to the educa- tion of children , the emancipation of slaves , and the Lord knows what ? Sir , the house begins to see ...
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... authority . Now , sir , if the number of them proves , on inquiry , to be such that it is impossible to believe they have been all guilty even of any crime , much less of crimes de- serving so great a punishment as perpetual slavery ...
... authority . Now , sir , if the number of them proves , on inquiry , to be such that it is impossible to believe they have been all guilty even of any crime , much less of crimes de- serving so great a punishment as perpetual slavery ...
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Seite 42 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 389 - Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of Popery and the Inquisition, if these more than Popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Seite 389 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Seite 380 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Seite 381 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Seite 385 - In a just and necessary war, to maintain the rights or honour of my country I would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjust in its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its consequences, I would not contribute a single effort nor a single shilling. I do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guilty; I only recommend to them to make their retreat. Let them walk off, and let them make haste, or they may be sure that speedy and...
Seite 386 - Lords, since they had neither sagacity to foresee, nor justice nor humanity to shun, these oppressive calamities; since not even severe experience can make them feel, nor the imminent ruin of their country awaken them from their stupefaction, the guardian care of parliament must interpose.
Seite 379 - Paris they transact the reciprocal interests of America and France. Can there be a more mortifying insult? Can even our ministers sustain a more humiliating disgrace ? Do they dare to resent it? Do they presume even to hint a vindication of their honor, and the dignity of the state, by requiring the dismission of the plenipotentiaries of America...