A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 2Taylor & Dodd, 1840 - United States |
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... assert such powers and exer- cise such legislation , and the public submit , not merely will our liberties be destroyed , but the very principle of freedom be extinct within us . Our post - office system , as we have before , on ...
... assert such powers and exer- cise such legislation , and the public submit , not merely will our liberties be destroyed , but the very principle of freedom be extinct within us . Our post - office system , as we have before , on ...
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... assertion , and not any for a denial of it , that Mr. Van Buren has no connexion , in any way or shape , with the doctrines or movements of the abolitionists , and that the attempt , on the part of certain prints , to connect him with ...
... assertion , and not any for a denial of it , that Mr. Van Buren has no connexion , in any way or shape , with the doctrines or movements of the abolitionists , and that the attempt , on the part of certain prints , to connect him with ...
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... asserted as matter of positive knowledge . On the 18th it understood this journal to be an organ of Mr. Van Buren , and on the 19th , without any intermediate corroboration of its opinion , surmise had grown into established fact . We ...
... asserted as matter of positive knowledge . On the 18th it understood this journal to be an organ of Mr. Van Buren , and on the 19th , without any intermediate corroboration of its opinion , surmise had grown into established fact . We ...
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... assertion . Here then one important part of the " concurrent testimony " on which Mr. Ken- dall relies is seen to be defective . But let us admit that the pamphlets and newspapers of the Anti - Slavery Society are as incendiary as alleg ...
... assertion . Here then one important part of the " concurrent testimony " on which Mr. Ken- dall relies is seen to be defective . But let us admit that the pamphlets and newspapers of the Anti - Slavery Society are as incendiary as alleg ...
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... assertion of the right of free discussion , and moreover we admire the heroism which cannot be driven from its ground by ... asserted as the duty of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia . That Congress has the constitu ...
... assertion of the right of free discussion , and moreover we admire the heroism which cannot be driven from its ground by ... asserted as the duty of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia . That Congress has the constitu ...
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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.