A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 1Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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Page viii
... conduct , are to be ascribed some singular inconsistencies of his views on various topics . He was an author and a consistent advocate of the right of property and of free trade . But he at all times opposed the introduction of an ...
... conduct , are to be ascribed some singular inconsistencies of his views on various topics . He was an author and a consistent advocate of the right of property and of free trade . But he at all times opposed the introduction of an ...
Page xi
... conduct . No humiliating solicitation - no weak complaint for a moment escaped him . But the intellectual character of Mr. Leggett , mark- ed as it was , was far inferior in excellence to his moral attributes . It is to these he owes ...
... conduct . No humiliating solicitation - no weak complaint for a moment escaped him . But the intellectual character of Mr. Leggett , mark- ed as it was , was far inferior in excellence to his moral attributes . It is to these he owes ...
Page xii
... conduct on the abolition question . The first time that this matter distinctly presented it- self , was in the summer of the year 1835. The administration was then in its palmiest days . The contested elections of 1834 had terminated ...
... conduct on the abolition question . The first time that this matter distinctly presented it- self , was in the summer of the year 1835. The administration was then in its palmiest days . The contested elections of 1834 had terminated ...
Page xiii
... conduct is as necessary as integrity of purpose . The unpopu- larity of the abolitionists was not wholly without cause . They had done injury to the progressive cause of freedom , by a violence of denunciation which the good sense of ...
... conduct is as necessary as integrity of purpose . The unpopu- larity of the abolitionists was not wholly without cause . They had done injury to the progressive cause of freedom , by a violence of denunciation which the good sense of ...
Page xiv
... conduct can be ascribed to no cause whatever but his love of truth and his utter superiority to sordid motives , and from the moment he adopted his line of proceeding , he steadfastly persevered in it . No con- siderations moved him ...
... conduct can be ascribed to no cause whatever but his love of truth and his utter superiority to sordid motives , and from the moment he adopted his line of proceeding , he steadfastly persevered in it . No con- siderations moved him ...
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Page 194 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature, shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property for local or private purposes.
Page 120 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 162 - There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Page 254 - Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters ; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election.
Page 120 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has...
Page 267 - No mechanical trade shall hereafter be taught to convicts in the State prison of this State, except the manufacture of those articles of which the chief supply for home consumption is imported from other States or countries.
Page 254 - The legislature may provide by law, that a register of all citizens entitled to the right of suffrage, in every town and ward, shall be made at least twenty days before any election; and may provide that no person shall vote at any election, who shall not be registered as a citizen qualified to vote at such election.
Page 120 - The Parliament of Great Britain asserted a right to tax the colonies in all cases whatsoever ; and it was precisely on this question that they made the Revolution turn. The amount of taxation was trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.
Page 119 - ... extreme jeopardy. We should not be worthy sons of our fathers were we so to regard great questions affecting the general freedom.
Page 108 - Or does he grow more learned, logical and profound by intense study of the daybook, ledger, bills of exchange, bank promises, and notes of hand? Of all the countries on the face of the earth, or that ever existed on the face of the earth, this is the one where the claims of wealth and aristocracy are the most unfounded, absurd and ridiculous. With no claim to hereditary distinctions; with no exclusive rights except what they derive from monopolies, and no power of perpetuating their estates in their...