The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, Volume 1Century Company, 1885 - Biography & Autobiography Bowles was editor of the newspaper Springfield Republican and advocated founding the Republican Party. |
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... followed the forms and usages which had grown up during many centuries of English life , but subject to certain modifica- tions : there was no privileged class ; the authority of crown and parliament was remote , and when it began to ...
... followed the forms and usages which had grown up during many centuries of English life , but subject to certain modifica- tions : there was no privileged class ; the authority of crown and parliament was remote , and when it began to ...
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... followed nearly half a century in which the young political system was exercised in only moderate difficulties , as if getting well knit for the tre- mendous tasks and problems awaiting it . But the strug- gles between Whigs and ...
... followed nearly half a century in which the young political system was exercised in only moderate difficulties , as if getting well knit for the tre- mendous tasks and problems awaiting it . But the strug- gles between Whigs and ...
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... followed largely the easier method which assumes that the editor and his readers are of the same mind , and simply reiterates under a variety of forms that they are right and their oppo- nents wrong . Political discussion forms the ...
... followed largely the easier method which assumes that the editor and his readers are of the same mind , and simply reiterates under a variety of forms that they are right and their oppo- nents wrong . Political discussion forms the ...
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... followed a pleasant intimacy with President Lincoln , and an influential private position at Washington ; but he was not acceptable to the Massachusetts congressmen , and no office was offered to him that he would accept . " We remember ...
... followed a pleasant intimacy with President Lincoln , and an influential private position at Washington ; but he was not acceptable to the Massachusetts congressmen , and no office was offered to him that he would accept . " We remember ...
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... followed the fashion of loyal partisanship . The Whigs won the day . The Southern Whig , Taylor , received 163 electoral votes , and the Northern Democrat , Cass , 127 , - drawn in pretty equal proportions from the two sections . Van ...
... followed the fashion of loyal partisanship . The Whigs won the day . The Southern Whig , Taylor , received 163 electoral votes , and the Northern Democrat , Cass , 127 , - drawn in pretty equal proportions from the two sections . Van ...
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Page 345 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 115 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 94 - That the series of acts of the Thirty-second Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave Law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace...
Page 243 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and, therefore, ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 201 - A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
Page 240 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 151 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.
Page 274 - ... if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 237 - I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down and caught and carried back to their stripes and unrequited toil; but I bite my lips and keep quiet.
Page 261 - That the Government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress, is provisional and temporary ; and during its existence, all citizens of the United States . have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.