Letters which Have Appeared in the Banner of the Constitution: Addressed to the EditorT.W. Ustick, 1831 - 80 páginas |
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... resisted ; they engender a spirit of selfishness , and are only created for the exclusive benefit of a few avaricious adventurers . " Who , " says an eniment French writer , " are the classes of the community so importunate for ...
... resisted ; they engender a spirit of selfishness , and are only created for the exclusive benefit of a few avaricious adventurers . " Who , " says an eniment French writer , " are the classes of the community so importunate for ...
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... resist a law which will impoverish the people , pick their pockets , relax their morals , loosen the sacred bands of society , introduce smuggling , and drive our brave tars from the Ocean , to seek refuge on sickly lakes and muddy ...
... resist a law which will impoverish the people , pick their pockets , relax their morals , loosen the sacred bands of society , introduce smuggling , and drive our brave tars from the Ocean , to seek refuge on sickly lakes and muddy ...
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... resisting a Tea Tax , and Stamp Act ; but those who ought to resist " the bill of abomination , " are denounced as nullifiers , " and traitors , and such like opprobrious names ; but he deserves to be a slave who suffers himself to be ...
... resisting a Tea Tax , and Stamp Act ; but those who ought to resist " the bill of abomination , " are denounced as nullifiers , " and traitors , and such like opprobrious names ; but he deserves to be a slave who suffers himself to be ...
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... resist injustice ; and , when all reasonable remonstrances are unheeded and contemned , there is physical power enough in the United States to take as a right what is refused as a favor . It is infinitely more noble to resist than ...
... resist injustice ; and , when all reasonable remonstrances are unheeded and contemned , there is physical power enough in the United States to take as a right what is refused as a favor . It is infinitely more noble to resist than ...
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... resisted the Stamp Act , and a paltry tax on tea ? Can it be pos- sible that the character of this land of liberty is so changed , and the people so degraded , as to submit to be the dupes of a system that , if persevered in , will ...
... resisted the Stamp Act , and a paltry tax on tea ? Can it be pos- sible that the character of this land of liberty is so changed , and the people so degraded , as to submit to be the dupes of a system that , if persevered in , will ...
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Términos y frases comunes
advocate agriculture Ameri American System avarice Banner bill of abominations cause of Free centum champions citizen confusion of tongues Congress considered Constitution corrupt cotton Dear Sir despotism doctrines Dugald Stewart emigrants enlightened enterprizing evils favor Federal Government feelings fellow-citizens foreign commerce Free Trade Free Trade Party freemen friends of Free hemp HERMANN high duties honest honorable imposed indirect taxation industry injustice intercourse interests iron justice labor land legislative liberty Lubec measures merchants monopoly moral nation nature never odious opinion oppressive Patrick Henry patriotic planters political poor prejudice present Tariff President produce prosperity protection of manufactures remarks render repeal Republic republican resist Restrictive System revenue ribaldry rich soil sophistry South Carolina Southern sovereign spirit Stamp Act Statesmen submit sugar system of indirect Tariff Law Tariff monster Tariff of 1828 tion truth tyranny Union United unjust Washington worthy writer
Pasajes populares
Página 23 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Página 6 - I maintain that sovereignty is in its nature indivisible. It is the supreme power in a State, and we might just as well speak of half a square, or half of a triangle, as of half a sovereignty.
Página 6 - ... surrender of them. A sovereign may delegate his powers to be exercised by as many agents as he may think proper, under such conditions and with such limitations as he may impose; but to surrender any portion of his sovereignty to another is to annihilate the whole.
Página 23 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breast He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial.
Página 23 - While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench, or twirling a distaff.
Página 20 - Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole.
Página 7 - Laplace, and astronomy itself from a mere observation of insulated facts into that noble science which displays to our admiration the system of the universe. And shall this high power of the mind, which has effected such wonders when directed to the laws which control the material world, be forever prohibited, under a senseless cry of metaphysics...
Página 18 - Exorbitant duties on imported articles serve to beget a general spirit Of smuggling ; which is always prejudicial to the fair trader, and eventually to the revenue itself: they tend to render other classes of the community tributary, in an improper degree, to the manufacturing classes, to whom they give a premature monopoly of the markets : they sometimes force industry out of its most natural channels...
Página 7 - He held them to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power. Denunciation may indeed fall upon the philosophical inquirer into these first principles, as it did upon Galileo and Bacon, when they first unfolded the great discoveries which have immortalized their names; but the time will come when truth will prevail in spite of Prejudice and denunciation, and when politics and legisition will be considered as much a...
Página 7 - It is the power •which raises man above the brute — which distinguishes his faculties from mere sagacity, which he holds in common with inferior animals. It is this power which has raised the astronomer from being a mere gazer at the stars to the high intellectual eminence of a Newton or Laplace, and astronomy itself from a mere observation of insulated facts into that noble science which displays to our admiration the system of the universe.