A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 1Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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... loungers , it will be , I am persuaded , thought reinarkable that he overcame them to so great an extent . I do not mean to over- rate the merit of his writings . I am aware 1 * PREFACE . Nurtured in moderate circumstances, unspoiled ...
... loungers , it will be , I am persuaded , thought reinarkable that he overcame them to so great an extent . I do not mean to over- rate the merit of his writings . I am aware 1 * PREFACE . Nurtured in moderate circumstances, unspoiled ...
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... means necessary to per- fect them , and to persuade their adoption — and what was a greater defect for one who desired to lead the public mind on matters of daily and hourly import- ance , he was not sufficiently practical , nor did he ...
... means necessary to per- fect them , and to persuade their adoption — and what was a greater defect for one who desired to lead the public mind on matters of daily and hourly import- ance , he was not sufficiently practical , nor did he ...
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... means of corruption ; and shudder with abhorrence at the free and audacious use it has made of those means ; yet accede to it the praise of having at least answered one great purpose of its creation - namely , the regulation of the ...
... means of corruption ; and shudder with abhorrence at the free and audacious use it has made of those means ; yet accede to it the praise of having at least answered one great purpose of its creation - namely , the regulation of the ...
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... means of payment of nearly 125,000 dollars . A depreciation of its credit was one of the con- sequences which had flowed from this state of things , and the notes of the United States Bank - the boasted insti- tution which claims to ...
... means of payment of nearly 125,000 dollars . A depreciation of its credit was one of the con- sequences which had flowed from this state of things , and the notes of the United States Bank - the boasted insti- tution which claims to ...
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... means and all the credit of the Bank have removed the evil day to a very distant period . But it had it completely within its power to effect its curtailment by easy degrees , and to bring back business into its proper channels by ...
... means and all the credit of the Bank have removed the evil day to a very distant period . But it had it completely within its power to effect its curtailment by easy degrees , and to bring back business into its proper channels by ...
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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...