A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 1Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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William Leggett. been forward to engage in every contest in which we considered the rights or interests of the people were put to hazard ; we have been strenuous in asserting the great doctrine of equal rights ; we have utterly shut our ...
William Leggett. been forward to engage in every contest in which we considered the rights or interests of the people were put to hazard ; we have been strenuous in asserting the great doctrine of equal rights ; we have utterly shut our ...
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... considered it as the ex- ercise of a very important power which had never been given by the states or the people to the General Govern . ment , and which the General Government could not therefore exercise without being guilty of ...
... considered it as the ex- ercise of a very important power which had never been given by the states or the people to the General Govern . ment , and which the General Government could not therefore exercise without being guilty of ...
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... considered . so are we . The The Post is for The Times has favoured us with a confession of faith on the subject of monopolies , and if its preaching were in ac- cordance with its creed , there would be little ground of dis- pute , for ...
... considered . so are we . The The Post is for The Times has favoured us with a confession of faith on the subject of monopolies , and if its preaching were in ac- cordance with its creed , there would be little ground of dis- pute , for ...
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... considered as the advocates of sudden or capricious change . All reforma- tions of the currency - all legislation , the tendency of which is to disturb the relations of value , should be slow , well considered and gradual . In this ...
... considered as the advocates of sudden or capricious change . All reforma- tions of the currency - all legislation , the tendency of which is to disturb the relations of value , should be slow , well considered and gradual . In this ...
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... considered as in the very low- est order of men of letters . A man of real abilities can scarce find out a more humiliating or a more unprofita- ble employment to turn them to . The endowments of schools and colleges have , in this ...
... considered as in the very low- est order of men of letters . A man of real abilities can scarce find out a more humiliating or a more unprofita- ble employment to turn them to . The endowments of schools and colleges have , in this ...
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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 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 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 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 177 - ... or convenient, or at least fashionable, to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense.
Page 173 - ... of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
Page 166 - ... take a stand against all new grants of monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy.
Page 109 - ... of their menaced rights? Have they not the right to act in concert when their opponents act in concert? Nay, is it not their bounden duty to combine against the only enemy they have to fear as yet in this free country: monopoly and a great paper system that grinds them to the dust? Truly, this is strange republican doctrine, and this is a strange republican country, where men cannot unite in one common effort, in one common cause, without rousing the cry of danger to the rights of person and...
Page 106 - The rich perceive, acknowledge, and act upon a common interest, and why not the poor ? Yet the moment the latter are called upon to combine for the preservation of their rights, forsooth the community is in danger ! Property is no longer secure, and life in jeopardy. This cant has descended to us from those times when the poor and...
Page 253 - ... 7. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office in this state, civil or military, who is not a citizen of the United States, and who shall not have resided in this state one year next before the election or appointment.