 | 1905 - 880 pages
...committees of Congress . . . that every step of that mighty enterprise had been taken in fraud. ... I have heard that suspicion haunts the footsteps of the trusted companions of the President." The general social evils of warfare should not be overlooked, even though we are hastening to reach... | |
 | William Worth Belknap - 1876 - 1180 pages
...should be gained in the Republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used when gained...gratification of personal revenge. I have heard that saspiciou haunts the footsteps of the trusted companions of the President. These things have passed... | |
 | 1877 - 748 pages
...doctrines avowed, by men grown old in public office, that the true way by which power should be regained in the republic is to bribe the people with the offices...The Hallam, or the Tacitus, or the Sismondi, or the Mocaulay, who writes the annals of our time, will record them with his inexorable pen." We shudder... | |
 | 1878 - 786 pages
...people with the offices created for their service ; and that the true aid for which it should be nsed when gained, is the promotion of selfish ambition...The Hallam, or the Tacitus, or the Sismondi, or the Mncaulay who writes the annals of our time, will record them with his inexorable pen." We shudder to... | |
 | 1878 - 906 pages
...in public office, tha't the true way by which power should be regained in the republic is to brib« the people with the offices created for their service...promotion of selfish ambition and the gratification of )>ersonal revenge. I have heard that suspicion haunts the footsteps of the trusted companions of the... | |
 | 1882 - 1042 pages
...should be gained in the Republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used when gained...footsteps of the trusted •companions of the President. Technical difficulties secured immunity from punishment to the minister of state then arraigned before... | |
 | Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - 1882 - 234 pages
...should be gained in the Republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used, when gained,...have heard that suspicion haunts the footsteps of trusted companions of the President." (Trial of Belknap, p. 68.) A DEMOCRATIC LETTER IN CONTRAST. In... | |
 | Democratic Party (U.S.) National committee, 1884-1888 - 1884 - 314 pages
...should be gained in the Republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used when gained...ambition and the gratification of personal revenge. " But this doctrine naturally has produced results which are still more alarming. The corrupt spirit... | |
 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1886 - 140 pages
...should be gained in the Republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used when gained...President. These things have passed into history." 1 Why had the work failed so disastrously ? First, there was a popular fallacy that the reform could... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1886 - 500 pages
...should be gained in the Republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used when gained...companions of the President. These things have passed into history."1 Why had the work failed so disastrously ? First, there was a popular fallacy that the reform... | |
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I have heard in highest places the shameless doctrine avowed by men grown old in public office that the true way by which power should be gained in the republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which... 
