The History of Democracy Considered as Party Name and as a Political OrganizationG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 - 227 pages |
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Page 84 - If the term of seven years were to be selected of the greatest prosperity which this people have enjoyed since the establishment of their present constitution, it would be exactly that period of seven years which immediately followed the passage of the tariff of 1824.
Page 31 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 16 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 84 - ... countless steamboats; the currency sound and abundant; the public debt of two wars nearly redeemed ; and, to crown all, the public treasury overflowing, embarrassing Congress, not to find subjects of taxation, but to select the objects which shall be liberated from the impost.
Page 86 - The general rule to be applied in graduating the duties upon articles of foreign growth or manufacture, is that which will place our own in fair competition with those of other countries ; and the inducements to advance even a step beyond this point, are controlling in regard to those articles which are of primary necessity in time of war.
Page 176 - Tell him of the tears of helpless widows, no longer able to earn their bread ; and of unclad and unfed orphans, who have been driven, by his policy, out of the busy pursuits in which but yesterday they were gaining an honest livelihood.
Page 190 - The history of trade in the United States, for the last three or four years, affords the most convincing evidence that our present condition is chiefly to be attributed to overaction in all the departments of business ; an overaction deriving, perhaps, its first impulses from antecedent causes. but stimulated to its destructive consequences by excessive issues of bar.k paper, and by other facilities for the acquisition and enlargement of credit.
Page 92 - The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when, acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning, may de
Page 85 - Government in a very short time to extinguish the public debt. When this shall be done our population will be relieved from a considerable portion of its present...
Page 83 - I have now to perform the more pleasing task of exhibiting an imperfect sketch of the existing state of the unparalleled prosperity of the country. On a general survey, we behold cultivation extended, the arts flourishing, the face of the country improved, our people fully and profitably employed, and the public countenance exhibiting tranquility, contentment and happiness.