 | Henry Bidleman Bascom - 1845 - 165 pagina’s
...Burke to a similar charge in the British Parliament : "the people of the Southern colonies of America, are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the Northward." We are tempted again to ask, why the South is denounced with such unsparing bitterness... | |
 | George Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott - 1846
...Edmund Burke,in a speech at the commencement of the war, that the people of the southern colonies were much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such will all masters of slaves be, who are not slaves themselves.' These sentiments... | |
 | 1856
...furthermore, applying this principle to the case of the American Colonies, "that the people of the Southern are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than the Northern." Bryan Edwards also observes of the West Indies, prior to the era of emancipation, that,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851
...the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. These people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such- were our Gothic ancestors; such in... | |
 | 1851
...the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. These people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 947 pagina’s
...least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I can not alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853
...the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. These people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - 1852 - 84 pagina’s
...least, as much pride as virtue in it — but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths — such were our Gothic ancestors — such,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852
...least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I can not alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these tive, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that arc...canvassed the whole of this city in form : but I to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors: such, in... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 947 pagina’s
...least as much pride as virtue in it; but I can not alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly,...more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in... | |
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The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. 
