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 remarkable that he overcame them to so great an extent . I do not mean to over- • rate the merit of his writings . I am 1 * PREFACE . Nurtured in moderate circumstances, unspoiled ...
... loungers , it will be , I am persuaded , thought remarkable that he overcame them to so great an extent . I do not mean to over- • rate the merit of his writings . I am 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 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.