 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 368 pages
...Johnson's talent for history, his political essays should not be forgotten, with their scornful insight : " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " And his latest work is historical : the Lives of the Poets. All these things are a long way from... | |
 | 1926 - 720 pages
...and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." "How is it," he asked again, "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes? " That was indeed a fairer thrust 1 "I am willing to love all mankind," the doctor observed in the... | |
 | William Archer - 1927 - 342 pages
...the pamphlet and looks for the passage.) Ah, here it is : " If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " MRS. LEWIS. " Drivers of negroes ", indeed ! As if our faithful, devoted black servants required... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 pages
...Taxation no Tyranny, his " answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress," he asks " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? " The prejudice in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scot1 This was first published by Malone as... | |
 | 1855 - 848 pages
...the chains of their slaves. To him at least could never be applied Dr. Johnson's taunting words, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ?" The views of Washington on this great question are best shown at the close of the Revolutionary... | |
 | Eli Sagan - 2001 - 652 pages
...already perceived the equivocation in liberalism, was unmerciful in underlining this moral ambiguity: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"44 Ambiguity and contradiction pile on top of contradiction and ambiguity: it was the future... | |
 | Mark Michael Smith - 2001 - 392 pages
...always been clamorous. Of American revolutionaries, the English Tory Samuel Johnson asked how it was that "we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"1 In the early national period, individuals such as New York's "industrious mechanic," seeking... | |
 | Christopher Hibbert - 2002 - 420 pages
...guarded apology for having advised so disastrous an attack. PART TWO 8 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?' Samuel Johnson On the last day of November 1774, Tom Paine, then aged thirtyeight, 'an ingenious, worthy... | |
 | Malini Johar Schueller, Edward Watts - 2003 - 282 pages
...Foremost among these was Samuel Johnson, who upon reading the Declaration of Independence quipped, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes." Quoted in Albert Boime. "Blacks in Shark-Infested Waters: Visual Encodings of Racism in Copley and... | |
 | James Hoopes - 2003 - 356 pages
...During the American Revolution, Samuel Johnson had voiced the mind of many puzzled Englishmen by asking, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Recent historians have offered a plausible answer to the riddle of how slaveholders could conceive... | |
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His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of... 
