The National Democratic Party: Its History, Principles, Acievements, and AimsWilliam Lyne Wilson H. D. Harvey & Company, 1888 - 639 pages |
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... United States into parties may be said to have occurred , although the grounds of opposition were by no means the same in all the States . Those who favored the new scheme of government assumed the name of Federalists ; those who ...
... United States into parties may be said to have occurred , although the grounds of opposition were by no means the same in all the States . Those who favored the new scheme of government assumed the name of Federalists ; those who ...
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... United States to wait for them . The worst that can be said of them is , they were late in arriving . " The New York Convention met at Poughkeepsie in June 17 , 1788 ; Governor Clinton was its president , and with Yates and Lansing who ...
... United States to wait for them . The worst that can be said of them is , they were late in arriving . " The New York Convention met at Poughkeepsie in June 17 , 1788 ; Governor Clinton was its president , and with Yates and Lansing who ...
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... United States , for nothing in our history so clearly shows the inade- quate conception then held by the most far - seeing statesmen of the play of parties in a government like ours , or of the lines along which their organi- zation ...
... United States , for nothing in our history so clearly shows the inade- quate conception then held by the most far - seeing statesmen of the play of parties in a government like ours , or of the lines along which their organi- zation ...
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... United States . When the Third Congress met , in December , 1793 , the Republicans were in the majority , and elected Muhlenberg Speaker of the House , by a majority of ten votes . Albert Gallatin appeared as a Republican senator from ...
... United States . When the Third Congress met , in December , 1793 , the Republicans were in the majority , and elected Muhlenberg Speaker of the House , by a majority of ten votes . Albert Gallatin appeared as a Republican senator from ...
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... United States and one at political opponents . They made naturalization more difficult and prolonged the term of residence in the United States preliminary to citizenship from five to fifteen years ; required all white aliens arriving ...
... United States and one at political opponents . They made naturalization more difficult and prolonged the term of residence in the United States preliminary to citizenship from five to fifteen years ; required all white aliens arriving ...
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Page 575 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 84 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 84 - 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 84 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 635 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...
Page 83 - ... that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong ; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may, by possibility, want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Page 133 - Constitution ; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences ; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Page 491 - Those rivers must be regarded as public, navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are, or may be, conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 255 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Page 76 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.