A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 2Taylor & Dodd, 1840 - United States |
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... abolition cause re- ceived in this city was , we are persuaded , the attempt to suppress it by the means of mobs ; and the greatest pro- moters of the abolition doctrines have been , in our judg ment , not Thompson nor Garrison , but ...
... abolition cause re- ceived in this city was , we are persuaded , the attempt to suppress it by the means of mobs ; and the greatest pro- moters of the abolition doctrines have been , in our judg ment , not Thompson nor Garrison , but ...
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... abolition tracts . On the contrary it is the bounden duty of the Government to protect the abolitionists in their constitutional right of free discussion ; and opposed , sincerely and zealously as we are , to their doctrines and ...
... abolition tracts . On the contrary it is the bounden duty of the Government to protect the abolitionists in their constitutional right of free discussion ; and opposed , sincerely and zealously as we are , to their doctrines and ...
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... abolition pamphlets would be stayed , but the circulation of a vast deal of harmful trash at the pub- lic expense would be prevented , creating a vacuum which would naturally be filled with matters of a better stamp . MR . KENDALL'S ...
... abolition pamphlets would be stayed , but the circulation of a vast deal of harmful trash at the pub- lic expense would be prevented , creating a vacuum which would naturally be filled with matters of a better stamp . MR . KENDALL'S ...
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... Abolition Association . We consider the fanatical obstinacy of that Association , in persevering to circulate their publications in the southern states , contrary to the unanimous sentiment of the white population , and at the obvious ...
... Abolition Association . We consider the fanatical obstinacy of that Association , in persevering to circulate their publications in the southern states , contrary to the unanimous sentiment of the white population , and at the obvious ...
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... abolition question , and that if the tenets and con- duct of the Anti - Slavery Association had been met only in a temperate and reasoning spirit , all that is really dangerous in them , all that the south has any right to com- plain of ...
... abolition question , and that if the tenets and con- duct of the Anti - Slavery Association had been met only in a temperate and reasoning spirit , all that is really dangerous in them , all that the south has any right to com- plain of ...
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Page 60 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 134 - 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 272 - Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.
Page 207 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that Error uses against her power.
Page 280 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 328 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people ? Still one thing more fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned.
Page 131 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned...
Page 53 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 201 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in 'their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their treatment there, is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to ' " shut the...
Page 11 - ... to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views I cannot sanction, and will not condemn the step you have taken. " Your justification must be looked for in the character of the papers detained, and the circumstances by which you are surrounded.