New Viewpoints in American HistoryMacmillan, 1922 - 299 páginas |
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... Republican party , " a purely sectional party , " as Stephen A. Douglas said , " with a plat- form that cannot cross the Ohio river . " Henceforth the political alignment of the nation was distinctively one of North against South . When ...
... Republican party , " a purely sectional party , " as Stephen A. Douglas said , " with a plat- form that cannot cross the Ohio river . " Henceforth the political alignment of the nation was distinctively one of North against South . When ...
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... party of the masses gained control of the government and assailed wealth by the issuance of fiat money and the ... republican heretofore , " declared that " the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy . " Alexander Hamilton ...
... party of the masses gained control of the government and assailed wealth by the issuance of fiat money and the ... republican heretofore , " declared that " the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy . " Alexander Hamilton ...
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... Republican party . Division within the ranks of the Demo- cratic leaders early in 1860 gave the anti - slavery forces their opportunity ; and in the presidential election of that year they elected their candidate Abraham Lincoln to the ...
... Republican party . Division within the ranks of the Demo- cratic leaders early in 1860 gave the anti - slavery forces their opportunity ; and in the presidential election of that year they elected their candidate Abraham Lincoln to the ...
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... Republican party was born out of the intense feeling of the time , women stimulated the men to active participation in the new party . Then occurred the Civil War and the energies of the women were for four terrible years turned to ...
... Republican party was born out of the intense feeling of the time , women stimulated the men to active participation in the new party . Then occurred the Civil War and the energies of the women were for four terrible years turned to ...
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... Republicans were not interested in establishing abstract justice as they professed but in building up a black Republican party in the South . In 1866 the American Equal Rights Society was formed through a merger of the former Woman ...
... Republicans were not interested in establishing abstract justice as they professed but in building up a black Republican party in the South . In 1866 the American Equal Rights Society was formed through a merger of the former Woman ...
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Página 48 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated...
Página 27 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference.
Página 138 - The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
Página 26 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Página 100 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 191 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Página 139 - He has made her morally an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming to all intents and purposes her master — the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement.
Página 162 - What do we mean by the American Revolution ? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.
Página 131 - I have retrenched every superfluous expense in my table and family; tea I have not drank since last Christmas, nor bought a new cap or gown since your defeat at Lexington; and, what I never did before, have learned to knit, and am now making stockings of American wool for my servants, and this way do I throw in my mite for the public good.
Página 178 - Oh, Mr. Adams, what great things have you and your colleagues done for us! We can never be grateful enough to you. There are no Courts of Justice now in this Province, and I hope there never will be another.