On the contrary, the three chief masters of British eloquence at that time, and in all time--Edmund Burke, William Pitt, and Charles James Fox--spoke on the side of the Colonists.

Reading the magnificent arguments of Burke to-day, we ask ourselves how any group in Parliament could have withstood them.

But there comes a moment in every vital discussion when arguments and logic fail to convince.

Passions deeper than logic controlled motives and actions.

The Colonists contended that in proclaiming "no taxation without representation," they were appealing to a principle of Anglo-Saxon liberty inherent in their race.