The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5-new [3rd] [Vol.11 of the new [2nd] ser. is imperf. Continued as The Home and foreign review].1861 |
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... ment we have studiously endeavoured to provide for its self - defence . Shall we leave the States alone unprovided with means for this purpose ? ' " ' + These speakers may have been good or bad politicians , they were certainly good ...
... ment we have studiously endeavoured to provide for its self - defence . Shall we leave the States alone unprovided with means for this purpose ? ' " ' + These speakers may have been good or bad politicians , they were certainly good ...
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... ment , and filled the treasury with superfluous gold . Now the Southern statesmen were always opposed to the predo- minance of the central authority , especially since it lent itself to a policy by which they suffered . They had ...
... ment , and filled the treasury with superfluous gold . Now the Southern statesmen were always opposed to the predo- minance of the central authority , especially since it lent itself to a policy by which they suffered . They had ...
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... ment of one , or a few , under which the people seek refuge from the more oppressive despotism of the many . Stripped of all its covering , the naked question is , whether ours is a federal or a consolidated government ; a constitu ...
... ment of one , or a few , under which the people seek refuge from the more oppressive despotism of the many . Stripped of all its covering , the naked question is , whether ours is a federal or a consolidated government ; a constitu ...
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... ment , that when despots combine , free States may lawfully unite . " It is as impossible to sympathise on religious grounds with the categorical prohibition of slavery as , on political grounds , with the opinions of the abolitionists ...
... ment , that when despots combine , free States may lawfully unite . " It is as impossible to sympathise on religious grounds with the categorical prohibition of slavery as , on political grounds , with the opinions of the abolitionists ...
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... ment of republics in countries with classes divided by blood has led to hopeless misery and disorder , and constant recourse to dictatorships as a refuge from anarchy and tyranny . De- mocracy inevitably takes the tone of the lower ...
... ment of republics in countries with classes divided by blood has led to hopeless misery and disorder , and constant recourse to dictatorships as a refuge from anarchy and tyranny . De- mocracy inevitably takes the tone of the lower ...
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Page 408 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination...
Page 19 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
Page 43 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.
Page 416 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 19 - It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Page 19 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people ; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 416 - The policy chosen looked to the exhaustion of all peaceful measures before a resort to any stronger ones. It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box.
Page 399 - And their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Sardinia, on the other part, engage to respect this determination of the Sultan, and to conform themselves to the principle above declared.
Page 81 - Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
Page 20 - In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.