...Edmund Burke* warned our great grandfathers of the danger of coercing the thirteen colonies : — " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and...government. Seas roll, and months pass between the order and execution, and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system....

...passed by the Assemblies. 6 " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them," said Mr. Burke. " No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government." Adam Smith observed: — "Their situation has placed them less in the view and less in the power of...

...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces...

...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than tie rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces...

...weakening government, which no contrivance can prevent. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order aal the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system." This, said Burke, was a weakness inherent in all great and widely-extended EmpiiH:...

...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly leas powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...explanation of a single point, is enough to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces...

...colonies is hardly lese powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the nataral constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean...explanation of a single point, is enough to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces...

...spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful , , . . J ' , Remotest*. than the rest, as it is not l, while the dispute continues, the exaggeration ends....magnitude, they are grown to it. While we spend our pro vent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the...

...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system." He said in another part of the same speech : " But let us suppose all these moral...

...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system. You have, indeed, "winged ministers " of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their...