The Second Battle: Or, The New Declaration of Independence, 1776-1900; an Account of the Struggle of 1900W.B. Conkey Company, 1900 - 575 pages |
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... Congress has enacted a new currency law . By its terms the govern- ment has presented to the national banks twenty - five millions of dollars , given them control of our circulation , provided for the pay- ment in cash of the premium ...
... Congress has enacted a new currency law . By its terms the govern- ment has presented to the national banks twenty - five millions of dollars , given them control of our circulation , provided for the pay- ment in cash of the premium ...
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... Congress only excited ridicule and contempt and served to emphasize their inability and disinclination to grapple the monsters and regulate their conduct and actions . No matter what their ex- cusses may be , the fact is that their ...
... Congress only excited ridicule and contempt and served to emphasize their inability and disinclination to grapple the monsters and regulate their conduct and actions . No matter what their ex- cusses may be , the fact is that their ...
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... Congress , but they have insidiously by an order from the President , extorted from him to aid them to obtain and hold politi- cal power , greatly impaired the efficiency of the law . " By the President's order many thousand lucrative ...
... Congress , but they have insidiously by an order from the President , extorted from him to aid them to obtain and hold politi- cal power , greatly impaired the efficiency of the law . " By the President's order many thousand lucrative ...
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... Congress shows that , in one case at least , an appeal from an institution in New York City to the Sec- retary of the Treasury for financial assistance because , as it was claimed , the officers of that bank had contributed liberally to ...
... Congress shows that , in one case at least , an appeal from an institution in New York City to the Sec- retary of the Treasury for financial assistance because , as it was claimed , the officers of that bank had contributed liberally to ...
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... Congress joined in that appeal and declared our readiness to support any and all measures that might in some degree remove these burdens of taxation . But a deaf ear was turned by the Republicans to all such efforts for relief and none ...
... Congress joined in that appeal and declared our readiness to support any and all measures that might in some degree remove these burdens of taxation . But a deaf ear was turned by the Republicans to all such efforts for relief and none ...
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Page 512 - 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 512 - 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.
Page 512 - 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 121 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others ? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Page 9 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Page 431 - The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself.
Page 273 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Page 9 - There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Page 270 - We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conquest; we are fighting in the defense of our homes, our families, and posterity. We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned; we have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them.
Page 279 - We denounce arbitrary interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal Judges, in contempt of the laws of the States and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges and executioners...