 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1914 - 786 pages
...emolument; it tends to form. it does form, we see that it has formed, a political combination, united by no common principles or opinions among its members,...and the desperate. It seems, Mr. President, to be a peMiliar and singular characteristic of the present administration, that it came into power on a cry... | |
 | 1919 - 776 pages
...if not checked good men will grow tired of the exercise of political privileges. They will see that elections are but a mere selfish contest for office...scramble of the bold, the daring and the desperate." Like warnings of the danger to our free institutions, but in varied words, have been given by Calhoun,... | |
 | National Civil Service League - 1919 - 554 pages
...if not checked good men will grow tired of the exercise of political privileges. They will see that elections are but a mere selfish contest for office...scramble of the bold, the daring and the desperate." Like warnings of the danger to our free institutions, but in varied words, have been given by Calhoun,... | |
 | New York (State). Dept. of Civil Service - 1886 - 314 pages
...tired of the exercise of political privileges. They will have nothing to do with popular elections, and they will abandon the government to the scramble of the bold, the daring and the desperate." ABITHMETIC. 1. Add- $4,892.21 2. Subtract from 9,187,403 908.49 608,909 9,346.10 • 94.06 4,897.54... | |
 | 1894 - 726 pages
...course of things cannot be checked, good men will grow tired of the exercise of political privileges. They will see that such elections are but a mere selfish...scramble of the bold, the daring and the desperate." That Webster was a true prophet, the course of politica! history in this country has sufficiently demonstrated.... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1882 - 592 pages
...course of things cannot be checked, good men will grow tired of the exercise of political privileges. They will see that such elections are but a mere selfish...scramble of the bold, the daring, and the desperate. Lamentably true as this prophecy has proved in multitudes of instances, it would be more lamentable,... | |
 | 1893 - 884 pages
...men in ; that, if not checked, good men would grow tired of the exercise of political privileges, and abandon the government to the scramble of the bold, the daring, and the desperate. But Mr. Webster was in the opposition. Mr. Calhoun had said that if it were not put down it would end... | |
 | C. C. S. Farrar - 1864 - 276 pages
...beforehand; they look upon popular elections as mere selfish contests for office; and accordingly they abandon the government to the scramble of the bold, the daring, and the desperate. Here, then, is formed a party organization, held together by the strongest bands which the vicious... | |
 | 1903 - 768 pages
...bad men in; that if not checked good men would grow tired of the exercise of political privileges and abandon the government to the scramble of the bold, the daring and the desperate." But Mr. Webster was not in office when he thus trembled for his country. When he became secretary of... | |
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... possession of the government by a vigorous exercise of its patronage ; and for this purpose agitating, and alarming, and distressing social life by the exercise of a tyrannical party proscription. Sir, if this course of things cannot be checked, good... 
