Side lights on English history; . mbition virtue! What makes am-bition virtue?—the sense of honor. . .In a just and necessary war, to main-tain the rights or honor of my country,I would strip the shirt from my back tosupport it. But in such a war as this,unjust in its principle, impracticable inits means, and ruinous in its conse-quences, I would not contribute a singleeffort, nor a single shilling. . Lord .Suffolk i^defending the employ-7)ic)it of tlic Indians in the war andcontending^ that., besides its policyand necessity it was allowable also onprinciple) : it is perfectly justifiableto us
Side lights on English history; . mbition virtue! What makes am-bition virtue?—the sense of honor. . .In a just and necessary war, to main-tain the rights or honor of my country,I would strip the shirt from my back tosupport it. But in such a war as this,unjust in its principle, impracticable inits means, and ruinous in its conse-quences, I would not contribute a singleeffort, nor a single shilling. . Lord .Suffolk i^defending the employ-7)ic)it of tlic Indians in the war andcontending^ that., besides its policyand necessity it was allowable also onprinciple) : it is perfectly justifiableto use all the means that God andNature put into our hands. Pitt(^suddenly rising) : I am astonished,shocked I to hear such principles con-fessed—to hear them avowed in thisHouse, or in this country:—principlesef[ually unconstitutional, inhuman andunchristian ! My Lords, I did not in-tend to have encroached again uponyour attention; but I cannot repressmy indignation—I feel myself impelledl)y every duty. My Lords, we are. William Pitt and the American War 2 71 called upon as members of this house,as men, as Christian men, to protestagainst such notions standing near thethrone, polluting the ear of Majesty.* That God and Nature put into ourhands! I know not what ideas thatLord may entertain of God and nature ;but I know, that such abominable prin-ciples are equally abhorrent to religionand humanity.—What! to attribute thesacred sanction of God and nature to themassacres of the Indian scalping knife—to the cannibal savage torturing,murdering, roasting and eating; liter- ,ally, my Lords, eating the mangledvictims of his barbarous battles. Suchhorrible notions shock every precept ofreligion, divine or natural, and eveiygenerous feeling of humanity. And, myLords, they shock every sentiment ofhonor; they shock me as a lover ofhonorable war, and a detester of mur-derous barbarity. . From the tapes-try that adorns these walls, the immortaliincestor [Admiral Howard] of thisnoble
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