The National Democratic Party: Its History, Principles, Acievements, and AimsWilliam Lyne Wilson H. D. Harvey & Company, 1888 - 639 pages |
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... secure for every topic a writer of acknowledged fitness and ability ; who writes as a Democrat , and who has enjoyed such im- mediate contact with the questions discussed by him , in the public service , as to give special weight and ...
... secure for every topic a writer of acknowledged fitness and ability ; who writes as a Democrat , and who has enjoyed such im- mediate contact with the questions discussed by him , in the public service , as to give special weight and ...
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... secure a majority in favor of ratification was so well adapted to the emergency that it was equally effectual in turning the scales in other States . That plan recog- nized the fact that many most ardent patriots , as anxious as any of ...
... secure a majority in favor of ratification was so well adapted to the emergency that it was equally effectual in turning the scales in other States . That plan recog- nized the fact that many most ardent patriots , as anxious as any of ...
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... secure us the good it contains ; but I equally wish that the four latest whichever they may be , may refuse to accede to it , till a declaration of rights be annexed ; but no objec- tion to the new form must produce a schism in our ...
... secure us the good it contains ; but I equally wish that the four latest whichever they may be , may refuse to accede to it , till a declaration of rights be annexed ; but no objec- tion to the new form must produce a schism in our ...
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... secure enough votes in Congress to call a Second Convention to revise and change the Constitution in the manner provided therein . Other Anti - federalists were aiming only to secure enough influence to compel the adoption of the ...
... secure enough votes in Congress to call a Second Convention to revise and change the Constitution in the manner provided therein . Other Anti - federalists were aiming only to secure enough influence to compel the adoption of the ...
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... secure a powerful class of creditors of the government than to pay its debts , it seemed wise and politic . Madison thought and felt otherwise . He could not brook the idea of enriching a greedy and selfish class of speculators and ...
... secure a powerful class of creditors of the government than to pay its debts , it seemed wise and politic . Madison thought and felt otherwise . He could not brook the idea of enriching a greedy and selfish class of speculators and ...
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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.