The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866Providence Press Company, 1866 - 23 pages |
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... Republic , " is some principle or passion in the minds of the people . " Nations are only larger men , like men endowed with individual life , obeying analogous laws of growth subject , alas , as the silent gates of Thebes , the ...
... Republic , " is some principle or passion in the minds of the people . " Nations are only larger men , like men endowed with individual life , obeying analogous laws of growth subject , alas , as the silent gates of Thebes , the ...
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... Republic has been equally applied to the Dutch Confederation , in which dwelt no direct principle of popular liberty ; to Poland , the most oppressive com- pound the world has ever seen , of monarchy and aris- tocracy ; to the Italian ...
... Republic has been equally applied to the Dutch Confederation , in which dwelt no direct principle of popular liberty ; to Poland , the most oppressive com- pound the world has ever seen , of monarchy and aris- tocracy ; to the Italian ...
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... Republic . When set up as a stay to hasty or illegal action , the maxim is a most sound and wholesome one . For it is unquestionably true that with reference to any private action the law is sov- ereign . The organic claims allegiance ...
... Republic . When set up as a stay to hasty or illegal action , the maxim is a most sound and wholesome one . For it is unquestionably true that with reference to any private action the law is sov- ereign . The organic claims allegiance ...
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... Republic the country of William Tell and Zwingli , — of Calvin , Berthelier and a host of kindred worthies ; and also in this famous city of Geneva , whose streets have flowed with the precious blood - of many Martyrs to the same Holy ...
... Republic the country of William Tell and Zwingli , — of Calvin , Berthelier and a host of kindred worthies ; and also in this famous city of Geneva , whose streets have flowed with the precious blood - of many Martyrs to the same Holy ...
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... republic of the Old World was not enough ; God raised up the great republic of the New World . When our hands began to hang down you came to our help , as a powerful reinforce- ment . Citizens of the United States , what is the real ...
... republic of the Old World was not enough ; God raised up the great republic of the New World . When our hands began to hang down you came to our help , as a powerful reinforce- ment . Citizens of the United States , what is the real ...
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Page 11 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 19 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 28 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 22 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 12 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Page 14 - 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 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 28 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 11 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...