Statesmen of the Old South, Or, From Radicalism to Conservative RevoltMacmillan Company, 1911 - 242 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 12 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Σελίδα 73 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.
Σελίδα 79 - ... the hour of emancipation is advancing in the march of time. It will come; and whether brought on by the generous energy of our own minds, or by the bloody process of St. Domingo...
Σελίδα 73 - Divide the counties into wards of such size as that every citizen can attend when called on, and act in person. Ascribe to them •the government of their wards in all things relating to themselves exclusively. A justice, chosen by themselves, in each, a constable, a military company, a patrol, a school, the care of their own poor, their own portion of the public roads, the choice of one or more jurors to serve in some court...
Σελίδα 71 - ... so that a faction once possessing themselves of the bench of a county, can never be broken up, but hold their county in chains, forever indissoluble. Yet these justices are the real executive as well as judiciary, in all our minor and most ordinary concerns. They tax us at will ; fill the office of sheriff, the most important of all the executive officers of the county ; name nearly all our military leaders, which leaders, once named, are removable but by themselves. The juries, our judges of...
Σελίδα 71 - The justices of the inferior courts are self-chosen, are for life, and perpetuate their own body in succession forever, so that a faction once possessing themselves of the bench of a county, can never be broken up, but hold their county in chains, forever indissoluble. Yet these justices are the real executive as well as judiciary, in all our minor and most ordinary concerns. They tax us at will ; fill the office of sheriff, the most important of all the executive officers of the county ; name nearly...
Σελίδα 23 - It is not difficult," remarks an acute critic, "to see how the great principle of Jefferson's life — absolute faith in democracy — came to him. He was the product of the first West in American history; he grew up with men who ruled their country well, who fought the Indians valiantly. . . . Jefferson loved his backwoods neighbors, and he, in turn, was loved by them.
Σελίδα 232 - ... political offspring men who employed his particularist doctrines in defense of slavery and protected interests. For he holds that Jefferson's party, like most parties which remain long in power, was gradually transformed from a body of militant reformers into a party of conservatives or " stand-patters ", from " an organization of small farmers and backwoods men, idealists in governmental theory ", into an organization which was dominated by cotton and slavery, the protected interests of that...
Σελίδα 73 - The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management. Try by this, as a tally, every provision of our constitution, and see if it hangs directly on the will of the people. Reduce your legislature to a convenient number for full, but orderly discussion. Let every man who fights or pays, exercise his just and equal right in their election.
Σελίδα 215 - President, excited, told him to remember " that no Democrat ever yet differed from an administration of his own choice without being crushed. Beware of the fate of Tallmadge and Rives," added he. " Mr. President," retorted Douglas, " I wish you to remember that General Jackson is dead.