The Public Men of the Revolution: Including Events from the Peace of 1783 to the Peace of 1815Carey and Hart, 1847 - 463 páginas |
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... union , and to fix it more firmly in the reverence of the people . In a land so free as this , an incessant struggle for power , both from good and from bad motives , must be expected . There will be perverse legislation , corrupt and ...
... union , and to fix it more firmly in the reverence of the people . In a land so free as this , an incessant struggle for power , both from good and from bad motives , must be expected . There will be perverse legislation , corrupt and ...
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... UNION , which no member of the confederacy will be seriously disposed to relinquish , as the inevi- table consequence must be foreign alliance , and a return to colo- nial dependence . The multiplication of states will be no evil . Each ...
... UNION , which no member of the confederacy will be seriously disposed to relinquish , as the inevi- table consequence must be foreign alliance , and a return to colo- nial dependence . The multiplication of states will be no evil . Each ...
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... Union owed ; state creditors were importunate , and private debtors were vigorously pursued . Massachusetts had stood forth , foremost of all the states ; and , at the close of the war , she had furnished one- third of all the effective ...
... Union owed ; state creditors were importunate , and private debtors were vigorously pursued . Massachusetts had stood forth , foremost of all the states ; and , at the close of the war , she had furnished one- third of all the effective ...
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... union of the states had not then been effected , it seems to have been admitted , that there was no hope of agreeing on any other mode of accomplishing this object ; and none , that the old con- federation would long have held the ...
... union of the states had not then been effected , it seems to have been admitted , that there was no hope of agreeing on any other mode of accomplishing this object ; and none , that the old con- federation would long have held the ...
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... union of the states was admitted by all , to be indispensable ; but in what manner it should be effected , what powers should be given , and what powers reserved ; how these should be modified , checked , and balanced , were points on ...
... union of the states was admitted by all , to be indispensable ; but in what manner it should be effected , what powers should be given , and what powers reserved ; how these should be modified , checked , and balanced , were points on ...
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Página 258 - Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace and decorates it with every romantic embellishment of fancy. A shrubbery that Shenstone might have envied blooms around him. Music that might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs is his. An extensive library spreads its treasures before him. A philosophical apparatus offers to him all the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquillity, and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And, to crown the enchantment...
Página 212 - And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions . . . every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
Página 237 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for, an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.
Página 371 - say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life ; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Página 219 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.
Página 267 - I feel a sense of obligation towards my creditors ; who in case of accident to me, by the forced sale of my property, may be in some degree sufferers. I did not think myself at liberty as a man of probity, lightly to expose them to this hazard, 4.
Página 188 - Purge that constitution of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would be the most perfect constitution ever devised by the wit of man.' Hamilton paused and said, ' Purge it of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would become an impracticable government : as it stands at present, with all its supposed defects, it is the most perfect government which ever existed.
Página 212 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 103 - Born, sir, in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
Página 265 - Let Mrs. Hamilton be immediately sent for — let the event be gradually broken to her; but give her hopes.