American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a History of All the Political Parties, with Their Views and Records on All Important Questions. Great Speeches on All Great Issues, and Tabulated History and Chronological Events |
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... continued to act the for the Confederacy until the 4th of March , 1789 , the date of the organization of the government under the Federal constitu- tion . Our political life has therefore three who argued that local self - government ...
... continued to act the for the Confederacy until the 4th of March , 1789 , the date of the organization of the government under the Federal constitu- tion . Our political life has therefore three who argued that local self - government ...
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... continued its ses- a federal government and constitution and sions until September 17th , of the same year . adhered to the rights of the States and The Strong Government Whigs had previ- those of local self - government . Doubtless ...
... continued its ses- a federal government and constitution and sions until September 17th , of the same year . adhered to the rights of the States and The Strong Government Whigs had previ- those of local self - government . Doubtless ...
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... continued the providing of a system of revenue from until 1794 , when Washington's threatened the collection of duties on imports , and an appearance at the head of fifteen thousand internal excise . His advocacy of a pro- militia ...
... continued the providing of a system of revenue from until 1794 , when Washington's threatened the collection of duties on imports , and an appearance at the head of fifteen thousand internal excise . His advocacy of a pro- militia ...
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... continued in the hands of the minority ? Does it violate their equal rights to assert some rights in the majority also ? Is it politica . intolerance to claim a proportionate share in the direc- tion of the public affairs ? If a due ...
... continued in the hands of the minority ? Does it violate their equal rights to assert some rights in the majority also ? Is it politica . intolerance to claim a proportionate share in the direc- tion of the public affairs ? If a due ...
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... continued the large Democratic majority , as did the twelfth , which met on the 4th of Novem- ber , 1811 , Henry Clay , then an ardent supporter of the policy of Madison , suc- ceeding to the House speakership . He had previously served ...
... continued the large Democratic majority , as did the twelfth , which met on the 4th of Novem- ber , 1811 , Henry Clay , then an ardent supporter of the policy of Madison , suc- ceeding to the House speakership . He had previously served ...
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Page 22 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
Page 68 - ... that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link...
Page 143 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 122 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 20 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Page 74 - Peace— but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me...
Page 143 - ... above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 19 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foun-dation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
Page 143 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 22 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.