Colonial, state, and national rights, 1761-1861G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916 - Public lands |
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... legislation and the govern- mental institutions of the country ; ( 3 ) a history of American political issues and events ; ( 4 ) a treatise upon the art of debate as exemplified in American fo- rensic contests ; ( 5 ) a guide to the ...
... legislation and the govern- mental institutions of the country ; ( 3 ) a history of American political issues and events ; ( 4 ) a treatise upon the art of debate as exemplified in American fo- rensic contests ; ( 5 ) a guide to the ...
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... legislative halls , at the bar , or on the public platform , or who wish to train themselves in writing intelligently and cogently on political and economic topics . The effective speakers and writers on serious subjects are those who ...
... legislative halls , at the bar , or on the public platform , or who wish to train themselves in writing intelligently and cogently on political and economic topics . The effective speakers and writers on serious subjects are those who ...
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... legislation and government through the reflected views of historians and publicists can never be as impressive as a direct presentation of the acts of fusing and casting these laws and institutions . Until such processes are visualized ...
... legislation and government through the reflected views of historians and publicists can never be as impressive as a direct presentation of the acts of fusing and casting these laws and institutions . Until such processes are visualized ...
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... legislation and parliamentary procedure . One day , however , the subject arose of the suppression of the slave trade by heavy taxation , and he supported the proposition in a speech part of which has fortunately been preserved , and ...
... legislation and parliamentary procedure . One day , however , the subject arose of the suppression of the slave trade by heavy taxation , and he supported the proposition in a speech part of which has fortunately been preserved , and ...
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... legislation whatsoever every governmental power- " except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent . " The Supremacy of Parliament . A strong movement now arose in Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act , but ...
... legislation whatsoever every governmental power- " except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent . " The Supremacy of Parliament . A strong movement now arose in Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act , but ...
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Page 339 - The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 433 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 103 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 157 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Page xii - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 339 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 153 - The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities.
Page 339 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 179 - The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Page 339 - ... be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.