Conciliation with the Colonies: The Speech by Edmund BurkeHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 141 Seiten |
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... Boston try sent two regiments of troops from Halifax to Boston . Upon the news of this disturbance , Parliament voted an address advising the ministers to put into force an old law of Henry VIII , by which persons accused of treason ...
... Boston try sent two regiments of troops from Halifax to Boston . Upon the news of this disturbance , Parliament voted an address advising the ministers to put into force an old law of Henry VIII , by which persons accused of treason ...
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... Boston Massacre , " by the Gaspee affair in Narragansett Bay , and by their intercolonial com- mittees of correspondence , and flamed up afresh with all its former heat the arrival of the news of Regulating Act the passage of the East ...
... Boston Massacre , " by the Gaspee affair in Narragansett Bay , and by their intercolonial com- mittees of correspondence , and flamed up afresh with all its former heat the arrival of the news of Regulating Act the passage of the East ...
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... Boston , the arrival of the ships created great excitement . Hutchinson refused to allow them to leave the harbor until the cargoes had been landed . On the 16th of December , a band of men disguised as Indians boarded the vessels ...
... Boston , the arrival of the ships created great excitement . Hutchinson refused to allow them to leave the harbor until the cargoes had been landed . On the 16th of December , a band of men disguised as Indians boarded the vessels ...
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... Boston was closed until the tea should be paid for . By the second , the charter of Massa- chusetts was changed ; the members of the Council , who by the charter were chosen by the General Court , were here- after to be appointed by the ...
... Boston was closed until the tea should be paid for . By the second , the charter of Massa- chusetts was changed ; the members of the Council , who by the charter were chosen by the General Court , were here- after to be appointed by the ...
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Seite 45 - ... be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. — It is peace sought in the spirit of peace ; and laid in principles purely pacific.
Seite 58 - In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Seite 62 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
Seite 45 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government^ It is simple peace, sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Seite 117 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Seite 53 - ... death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Seite 49 - Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.
Seite 56 - I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross ; but that• quite a different conclusion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them.
Seite 63 - Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study.
Seite 78 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle — but it is true ; I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.