Statesmen of the Old South; Or From Radicalism to Conservative RevoltMacmillan, 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 72 - 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.
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 146 - Corresp. 617. resisted his kindly attentions of the preceding autumn, for was not the new president a protege of Old Hickory and did he not come directly from the Hermitage? But Polk may well have feared to sit down in cabinet meetings with a man who towered above him quite as much as...
Σελίδα 45 - ... by conservative Democrats to be a violation of traditional Democratic principles on the part of the FD Roosevelt administration? (1) Increasing the amount of self-government enjoyed by our insular dependencies, (2) Lowering of tariffs by the conclusion of reciprocal trade agreements, (3) Increasing the powers of the National Government at the expense of the states, (4) Reestablishing the bimetallic standard as a means of devaluing the currency. 870. (1) Anti-New Deal Democrats differed from New...
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.