Conciliation with the American ColoniesAmerican Book Company, 1896 - 87 sider |
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Side 18
... is in your equity to judge . Sir , Parliament having an enlarged view of objects , made , during 1 The time of the repeal of the Stamp Act . this interval , more frequent changes in their sentiments and 18 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION.
... is in your equity to judge . Sir , Parliament having an enlarged view of objects , made , during 1 The time of the repeal of the Stamp Act . this interval , more frequent changes in their sentiments and 18 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION.
Side 50
... Some years ago , the repeal of a revenue act , upon its under- stood principle , might have served to show that we intended an unconditional abatement of the exercise of a taxing power . 50 EDMUND burke oN CONCILIATION.
... Some years ago , the repeal of a revenue act , upon its under- stood principle , might have served to show that we intended an unconditional abatement of the exercise of a taxing power . 50 EDMUND burke oN CONCILIATION.
Side 52
... Dr. Tucker , Dean of Gloucester , who wrote tracts on politi- cal and commercial subjects , and advocated granting the Americans inde- pendence . a repeal . See how the Americans act in this 52 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION.
... Dr. Tucker , Dean of Gloucester , who wrote tracts on politi- cal and commercial subjects , and advocated granting the Americans inde- pendence . a repeal . See how the Americans act in this 52 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION.
Side 53
Edmund Burke. a repeal . See how the Americans act in this position , and then you will be able to discern correctly what is the true object of the controversy , or whether any controversy at all will remain . Unless you consent to ...
Edmund Burke. a repeal . See how the Americans act in this position , and then you will be able to discern correctly what is the true object of the controversy , or whether any controversy at all will remain . Unless you consent to ...
Side 64
... repealed or exceedingly reduced ? Were they not touched and grieved even by the regulating duties of the sixth 1 of ... repealed in 1766 . 1 likewise repealed , and which Lord Hillsborough tells you ( 64 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION.
... repealed or exceedingly reduced ? Were they not touched and grieved even by the regulating duties of the sixth 1 of ... repealed in 1766 . 1 likewise repealed , and which Lord Hillsborough tells you ( 64 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION.
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Side 46 - State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.
Side 50 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Side 43 - The temper and character, which prevail in our colonies, are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale, would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Side 74 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Side 37 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle.
Side 32 - England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Side 21 - 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. I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles...
Side 36 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Side 45 - But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry; and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Side 33 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that, in all monarchies, the people must in effect themselves mediately or immediately possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.