Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volumen5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... crime is punished by slavery , and false accusations are perpetually brought in order to obtain the price for which the party convicted is to be sold ; sometimes the judges have a considerable part of this very price , and universally ...
... crime is punished by slavery , and false accusations are perpetually brought in order to obtain the price for which the party convicted is to be sold ; sometimes the judges have a considerable part of this very price , and universally ...
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... crimes very hard , in order to get the benefit of selling the criminal . Not only murder , theft , and adultery are punished by selling the criminal for a slave , but every trifling crime is punished in the same manner . " This , and ...
... crimes very hard , in order to get the benefit of selling the criminal . Not only murder , theft , and adultery are punished by selling the criminal for a slave , but every trifling crime is punished in the same manner . " This , and ...
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... crime on trial by their own clan . " And again , " domesticks are not sold by their masters but for enormous crimes , and after trial by their own clan . ” Many slaves in Africa are not easily distinguished from their masters ...
... crime on trial by their own clan . " And again , " domesticks are not sold by their masters but for enormous crimes , and after trial by their own clan . ” Many slaves in Africa are not easily distinguished from their masters ...
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... crimes at Whydah are generally compensated by money . " Speaking of the Gold Coast , he says , Nobody is here fined above his ability , unless by an accumulation of crimes he hath given occasion there . to , and then he is sent into ...
... crimes at Whydah are generally compensated by money . " Speaking of the Gold Coast , he says , Nobody is here fined above his ability , unless by an accumulation of crimes he hath given occasion there . to , and then he is sent into ...
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... crimes knowingly , because they have hitherto done it ignorantly ? In fact , sir , an incident that has lately happened in a neighbouring kingdom , tends to con- firm this very reasoning , and it should encourage the friends of ...
... crimes knowingly , because they have hitherto done it ignorantly ? In fact , sir , an incident that has lately happened in a neighbouring kingdom , tends to con- firm this very reasoning , and it should encourage the friends of ...
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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.