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... respecting the possibility of illit- erate nations enjoying the blessing of self - government , and of the way in which friends of civil liberty — especially the way in which the government of a Republic - should look upon public ...
... respecting the possibility of illit- erate nations enjoying the blessing of self - government , and of the way in which friends of civil liberty — especially the way in which the government of a Republic - should look upon public ...
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... respecting the people of Greece , he wrote : " You have certainly begun at the right end towards preparing them for the great object for which they are now contending , by improving their minds and qualifying them for self - government ...
... respecting the people of Greece , he wrote : " You have certainly begun at the right end towards preparing them for the great object for which they are now contending , by improving their minds and qualifying them for self - government ...
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... respecting America and against the cause of liberty in Europe not generally known , ordered his Solicitor General to accuse Lafayette , who at the time was a member of the House of Deputies of France , of treason . The accusation was ...
... respecting America and against the cause of liberty in Europe not generally known , ordered his Solicitor General to accuse Lafayette , who at the time was a member of the House of Deputies of France , of treason . The accusation was ...
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... respecting the finances of France , he was mobbed on leaving the Cham- ber and his life was with difficulty saved . Although he declined honors offered him by Napoleon he was instru- mental in bringing about the treaty of 1803 by which ...
... respecting the finances of France , he was mobbed on leaving the Cham- ber and his life was with difficulty saved . Although he declined honors offered him by Napoleon he was instru- mental in bringing about the treaty of 1803 by which ...
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... respecting the practica- bility of illiterate nations satisfactorily governing them- selves ? To state in a condensed form his conclusions , he believed as will be seen in a letter dated Jan. 16th , 1816 , which will be more fully ...
... respecting the practica- bility of illiterate nations satisfactorily governing them- selves ? To state in a condensed form his conclusions , he believed as will be seen in a letter dated Jan. 16th , 1816 , which will be more fully ...
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Page 284 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 215 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 284 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 284 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 248 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 355 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 268 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Page 62 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 345 - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, hoicever, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote...