Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... situation of the slaves in the West Indies must indeed be deplorable . I shall not here detail the particulars of their state , having done it so minutely on a former occasion : I then proved my assertions by the positive testimony of ...
... situation of the slaves in the West Indies must indeed be deplorable . I shall not here detail the particulars of their state , having done it so minutely on a former occasion : I then proved my assertions by the positive testimony of ...
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... situation of the bulk of the people in this country if gentlemen of five hundred pounds per annum were alone admitted as witnesses ? But the case in the West Indies is much worse . For , where two or three white men being on a ...
... situation of the bulk of the people in this country if gentlemen of five hundred pounds per annum were alone admitted as witnesses ? But the case in the West Indies is much worse . For , where two or three white men being on a ...
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... situations , many of them extremely ill adapted to their constitutions . We pointed out also many modes , whereby , if it should be deemed neces- sary , the chasm could be filled up , which some might think would be occasioned by ...
... situations , many of them extremely ill adapted to their constitutions . We pointed out also many modes , whereby , if it should be deemed neces- sary , the chasm could be filled up , which some might think would be occasioned by ...
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... situation of the slaves on board ship , or what is commonly called the middle passage . I will spare the committee , however , the detail of all those perfections in cruelty which it exhibits : but two or three instances I must mention ...
... situation of the slaves on board ship , or what is commonly called the middle passage . I will spare the committee , however , the detail of all those perfections in cruelty which it exhibits : but two or three instances I must mention ...
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... situation . If such were the state of things under captains who had still the feelings of their na- ture , what must it be under those of a contrary de- scription ? It would be a curious speculation to consi- der what would be the ...
... situation . If such were the state of things under captains who had still the feelings of their na- ture , what must it be under those of a contrary de- scription ? It would be a curious speculation to consi- der what would be the ...
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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.