Conciliation with the Colonies: The Speech by Edmund BurkeHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 141 Seiten |
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... Justice , Lord Mans- field , defended the Stamp Act and opposed its repeal . He spoke with greater authority than any other member of Parliament . Like Grenville , he saw no real difference between internal and external taxes . " The ...
... Justice , Lord Mans- field , defended the Stamp Act and opposed its repeal . He spoke with greater authority than any other member of Parliament . Like Grenville , he saw no real difference between internal and external taxes . " The ...
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... justice tell me I ought to do , " the Loyalists , in the same spirit , asserted that it was not a time for Americans to insist on every questionable right , and that humanity , reason , and justice do not require a people to resort to ...
... justice tell me I ought to do , " the Loyalists , in the same spirit , asserted that it was not a time for Americans to insist on every questionable right , and that humanity , reason , and justice do not require a people to resort to ...
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... justice of a taxation of America by grant , and not by imposition , etc. ( 91 ) . The six fundamental resolutions ( to be followed by three corollary propositions ) are as fol- lows : I. ( 94. ) ( No proof . ) II . ( 96. ) a . and b ...
... justice of a taxation of America by grant , and not by imposition , etc. ( 91 ) . The six fundamental resolutions ( to be followed by three corollary propositions ) are as fol- lows : I. ( 94. ) ( No proof . ) II . ( 96. ) a . and b ...
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... justice to this great public contest . I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people . I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow - creatures as Sir Edward Coke insulted one ...
... justice to this great public contest . I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people . I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow - creatures as Sir Edward Coke insulted one ...
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... justice is the same , let the judge be in what situa- tion he will . 62. There is , Sir , also a circumstance which con vinces me that this mode of criminal proceeding is not at least in the present stage of our contest , 76 ...
... justice is the same , let the judge be in what situa- tion he will . 62. There is , Sir , also a circumstance which con vinces me that this mode of criminal proceeding is not at least in the present stage of our contest , 76 ...
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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.