The Great Parliamentary Battle And Farewell Addresses of the Southern Senators O
The Great Parliamentary Battle And Farewell Addresses of the Southern Senators O
Thomas Ricaud Martin
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■'Sir, when Great Britain proposed to exact tribute from your fathers against their will Lord Chatham said: " 'Whatever is a man's own is absolutely his own ; no man has a right to take it from him without his consent. Whoever attempts to do it attempts an injury. Whoever does it com- mits a robbery. You have no right to tax America. I rejoice that America has resisted. Let the sovereign authority of this country over the Colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to... extend to every point of legis- lation whatever, so that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures and exercise every power except that of taking money out of their own pockets without their consent. ' "It was reserved for the latter half of the nine- teenth century and for the Congress of a Republic of free men to witness the willing abnegation of all power save that of exacting tribute. What Imperial Britain with the haughtiest pretensions of unlimited power over dependent colonies could not even at- tempt without a vehement protest of her greatest 96 THE GREAT PARLIAMENTARY BATTLE statesmen, is to be enforced in aggravated form, if you can enforce it, against independent States.
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