Five American Politicians: A Study in the Evolution of American Politics. I. Aaron Burr, Father of the Political Machine. II. De Witt Clinton, Father of the Spoils System. III. Martin Van Buren, Nationalizer of the Machine. V [sic] Henry Clay, Master and Victim of Compromise and Coalition. VI [sic] Stephen A. Douglas, Defender of State's Rights and of NationalismBurrows Bros. Company, 1906 - 447 pages |
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... believed the instigator of the Anti - Burr faction in the Republican party . After the trial , Burr , disguised and under an assumed name , fled to Europe . At the courts of the old world he sought aid in his scheme to conquer Mexico ...
... believed the instigator of the Anti - Burr faction in the Republican party . After the trial , Burr , disguised and under an assumed name , fled to Europe . At the courts of the old world he sought aid in his scheme to conquer Mexico ...
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... believed in a rigorous and efficient warfare , not in the insipid and half - hearted attempts of Madison and Jefferson . He bellieved that the war should be delayed until the country had an army with at least a sem- blance of discipline ...
... believed in a rigorous and efficient warfare , not in the insipid and half - hearted attempts of Madison and Jefferson . He bellieved that the war should be delayed until the country had an army with at least a sem- blance of discipline ...
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... believed that in case of a deadlock in the election , he could be chosen . He disliked Monroe because he was a member of the Virginia dynasty . He mis- trusted Adams because he believed he had bought the Presidency by bargaining with ...
... believed that in case of a deadlock in the election , he could be chosen . He disliked Monroe because he was a member of the Virginia dynasty . He mis- trusted Adams because he believed he had bought the Presidency by bargaining with ...
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... believed to be the enemy of the people , and struck from the hand of secession the sword it had lifted against the federal union . His rugged personality has left upon the nation a permanent impress , and so strong was the virility of ...
... believed to be the enemy of the people , and struck from the hand of secession the sword it had lifted against the federal union . His rugged personality has left upon the nation a permanent impress , and so strong was the virility of ...
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... believed the lie . On way from congress , in 1824 , he was greet- ed at Washington , Pa . , by a group of ad- mirers . One of them , an aged farmer , said to him : " Well , General , we did all we could for you here , but the rascals at ...
... believed the lie . On way from congress , in 1824 , he was greet- ed at Washington , Pa . , by a group of ad- mirers . One of them , an aged farmer , said to him : " Well , General , we did all we could for you here , but the rascals at ...
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Page 378 - We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their state free, and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave state.
Page 386 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 431 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that, as our republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that "no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 378 - Put this and that together, and we have another nice little niche, which we may, ere long, see filled with another Supreme Court decision declaring that the Constitution of the United States does not permit a State to exclude slavery from its limits. And this may especially be expected if the doctrine of "care not whether slavery be voted down or voted up" shall gain upon the public mind sufficiently to give promise that such a decision can be maintained when made.
Page 397 - I do not believe it is a Constitutional right to hold slaves in a Territory of the United States. I believe the decision was improperly made and I go for reversing it.
Page 440 - But this is no time for a detail of causes. The conspiracy is now known. Armies have been raised, war is levied to accomplish it. There are only two sides to the question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots — or traitors.
Page 389 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 377 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 335 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the states and territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and...
Page 392 - AngloSaxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began...