The Political and Miscellaneous Writings of William G. Goddard, Volume 1S.S. Rider and brother, 1870 |
Other editions - View all
The Political and Miscellaneous Writings of William G. Goddard William G Goddard No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
adopted Algerine anarchy Arthur Fenner Assembly avowed candidate cause character Charles Jackson Clay confidence Congress conservative crisis danger declared defence demagogues democracy democratic despotism doctrines Dorr Dorrism Dorrite Convention DUTIES.-NO duty election equal rights established faction Farmers of Rhode favor fear fellow citizens force fraud Free Suffrage gentlemen Governor Fenner Henry Clay honor indignation interests issue jacobinism James Fenner John Brown Francis land language Law and Order legal constitution Legislature liberty maintain majority means ment moral never OLD NARRAGANSETT opinion Order party overthrow passions peace people's constitution political power politicians popular present protect PROVIDENCE JOURNAL purpose republican resolutions Resolved revolutionary Rhode Island party Rhode Island question right of suffrage Senate Simmons spirit Sprague stitution suffrage party sympathy Thomas W Thomas Wilson Dorr tion town trample triumph true Union United universal suffrage usurpation vote Whig party whole
Popular passages
Page 534 - Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Page 258 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 111 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free ; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage...
Page 511 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Page 109 - ... speculators, and adventurers, composing an ignoble oligarchy, founded on the destruction of the crown, the church, the nobility, and the people. Here end all the deceitful dreams and visions of the equality and rights of men. In "the Serbonian bog" of this base oligarchy they are all absorbed, sunk, and lost for ever.
Page 113 - The constitution does not provide for events which must be preceded by its own destruction. Secession, therefore, since it must bring these consequences with it, is revolutionary. And nullification is equally revolutionary. What is revolution? Why, sir, that is revolution •which overturns or controls, or successfully resists the existing public authority ; that which arrests the exercise of the supreme power ; that which introduces a new paramount authority into the rule of the state.
Page 18 - The right of any officer to give his vote at elections as a qualified citizen is not meant to be restrained, nor, however given, shall it have any effect to his prejudice; but it is expected that he will not attempt to influence the votes of others nor take any part in the business of electioneering, that being deemed inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution and his duties to it.
Page 114 - All charters, contracts, judgments, actions, and rights of action shall be as valid as if this constitution had not been made. The present government shall exercise all the powers with which it is now clothed, until the said first Tuesday of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and until the government under this constitution is duly organized.
Page 18 - ... it is deemed improper for officers depending on the executive of the Union, to attempt to control or influence the free exercise of the elective right.
Page 398 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.