Some Southern QuestionsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 318 pages |
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... Trade of Newark , New Jersey , January 18 , 1900 . The fourth considers The Experience of this Repub- lic as to the Elective Franchise , and was delivered be- fore the Nineteenth Century Club in New York City , January 15 , 1901 . The ...
... Trade of Newark , New Jersey , January 18 , 1900 . The fourth considers The Experience of this Repub- lic as to the Elective Franchise , and was delivered be- fore the Nineteenth Century Club in New York City , January 15 , 1901 . The ...
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... trade and of civilization is to - day in- exorable , and the cheapest and best will win in the industrial warfare . The West is teeming with popula- tion . It is largely agricultural in its nature . The South , unlike the West , affords ...
... trade and of civilization is to - day in- exorable , and the cheapest and best will win in the industrial warfare . The West is teeming with popula- tion . It is largely agricultural in its nature . The South , unlike the West , affords ...
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... trades . In the libraries of these schools there were 244,794 volumes , valued at $ 203,731 . The aggregate value of grounds , buildings , furniture , and scientific apparatus was $ 7,714,908 . The value of benefactions or bequests ...
... trades . In the libraries of these schools there were 244,794 volumes , valued at $ 203,731 . The aggregate value of grounds , buildings , furniture , and scientific apparatus was $ 7,714,908 . The value of benefactions or bequests ...
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... trades and mills will lessen somewhat the price of labor , this must be one of the burdens of the South . This is a very ... trade and able to make his living , than to an ignorant one . Individuals must suffer in every great social or ...
... trades and mills will lessen somewhat the price of labor , this must be one of the burdens of the South . This is a very ... trade and able to make his living , than to an ignorant one . Individuals must suffer in every great social or ...
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... Trade . Yet , sir , the significance of the event hurried my memory to other days long past , and whispered that in this day of coming change no good man , however humble , should turn his face away from the rising sun or withhold his ...
... Trade . Yet , sir , the significance of the event hurried my memory to other days long past , and whispered that in this day of coming change no good man , however humble , should turn his face away from the rising sun or withhold his ...
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Page 209 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 252 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 37 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 209 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 2 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Page 188 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 211 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Page 181 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Page 209 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...
Page 209 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...