Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence volume 7
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence volume 7
John Sanderson
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That with a dexterity artful and wicked, they had varied the modes of attack accord- ing to the different characters and circumstances of those whom they meant to reduce. In the East Indies, scarcely veiling their tyranny under the thinnest dis- guise ; but wantonly sacrificing the lives of millions to gratify their avarice and power. In Britain, where the maxims at least of freedom were known, employing the secret arts of corruption. In America, too resolute for the employment of open force, a...nd as yet too pure for corruption, forming plausible systems, making specious pretences, and trying by all the arts of sophistry to prove their right to enslave. These principles they afterwards attempted to enforce by the hand of power. The power and the cunning however of our adversaries, he adds, were alike unsuccessful. We refused to their parlia- ments an obedience which our judgments disapproved 156 HOOPER. of: we refused to their armies a submission, which spirits unaccustomed to slavery could not brook.
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