Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volumen5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... consideration of our arguments , than the indiscrimi- nate censures which may have sometimes been really cast on the whole body of West Indians . There may have been those who , suffering their passions to hurry them to hasty and ...
... consideration of our arguments , than the indiscrimi- nate censures which may have sometimes been really cast on the whole body of West Indians . There may have been those who , suffering their passions to hurry them to hasty and ...
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... considerations arising out of the very nature of the case , or suggested by scrutinizing and laying toge- ther different assertions from our opponents . I then specified many general evils resulting from the nature of the system , and ...
... considerations arising out of the very nature of the case , or suggested by scrutinizing and laying toge- ther different assertions from our opponents . I then specified many general evils resulting from the nature of the system , and ...
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... consideration of the planter's benefit , from stopping the importa- tions , does not interest me in any degree so much as that to be thence derived by the unhappy slaves . Losing by degrees the painful recollection of their na- tive and ...
... consideration of the planter's benefit , from stopping the importa- tions , does not interest me in any degree so much as that to be thence derived by the unhappy slaves . Losing by degrees the painful recollection of their na- tive and ...
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... considerations , I now proceed to that part of the subject which , indeed , most interests my heart . Look to the continent of Africa , and there you will behold such a scene of horrours as no tongue can express , no imagination can ...
... considerations , I now proceed to that part of the subject which , indeed , most interests my heart . Look to the continent of Africa , and there you will behold such a scene of horrours as no tongue can express , no imagination can ...
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... consideration that they are perpetrated by those who , instead of the despoilers and ravagers , ought to have been the guar- dians and protectors of their people . A chieftain is in want of European commodities , and being too weak or ...
... consideration that they are perpetrated by those who , instead of the despoilers and ravagers , ought to have been the guar- dians and protectors of their people . A chieftain is in want of European commodities , and being too weak or ...
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Página 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...
Página 381 - As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. 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 of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely.
Página 388 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Página 377 - I rise, my lords, to declare my sentiments on this most solemn and serious subject. It has imposed a load upon my mind, which, I fear, nothing can remove ; but which impels me to endeavour its alleviation, by a free and unreserved communication of my sentiments.
Página 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...
Página 411 - His Majesty is persuaded that the unremitting industry with which our enemies persevere in their avowed design of effecting the separation of Ireland from this kingdom, cannot fail to engage the particular attention of parliament ; and his Majesty recommends it...
Página 385 - You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Página 382 - To call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman savage of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My Lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character — it is a violation of the constitution — I believe it is against law.