A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett: Selected and Arranged with a Preface by Theodore Sedgwick, Jr, Volume 2Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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... legislation , and the public submit , not merely will our liberties be destroyed , but the very principle of freedom be extinct within us . Our post - office system , as we have before , on different occasions , admitted , is very bad ...
... legislation , and the public submit , not merely will our liberties be destroyed , but the very principle of freedom be extinct within us . Our post - office system , as we have before , on different occasions , admitted , is very bad ...
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... legislation for it should be of that neutral tint , which results from the mixture of contrary hues of opin- ion , and is in strong opposition to none . If the free states have a majority in Congress , yet paramount con- siderations of ...
... legislation for it should be of that neutral tint , which results from the mixture of contrary hues of opin- ion , and is in strong opposition to none . If the free states have a majority in Congress , yet paramount con- siderations of ...
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... legislative interference in the gen- eral government , direct or indirect , or in the govern ments of the states , we distinctly deny . But at the same time we as distinctly assert the clear unalienable right of every citizen of the ...
... legislative interference in the gen- eral government , direct or indirect , or in the govern ments of the states , we distinctly deny . But at the same time we as distinctly assert the clear unalienable right of every citizen of the ...
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... know , we are opposed to the whole system of legislative interference with trade , which we wish to see left to its own laws , un- fettered by any of the clogs and hinderances invented by 68 POLITICAL WRITINGS OF REGULATION OF COAL. ...
... know , we are opposed to the whole system of legislative interference with trade , which we wish to see left to its own laws , un- fettered by any of the clogs and hinderances invented by 68 POLITICAL WRITINGS OF REGULATION OF COAL. ...
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... legislation should tend to the equal benefit of all . But where would the American stop ? If free ferries are of advantage , why would not free markets be also ? And free warehouses ? And free dwelling houses ? And free packet ships ...
... legislation should tend to the equal benefit of all . But where would the American stop ? If free ferries are of advantage , why would not free markets be also ? And free warehouses ? And free dwelling houses ? And free packet ships ...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 2 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett ..., Volume 2 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 2 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
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Página 133 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 62 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 285 - And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter— like favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it.
Página 209 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that Error uses against her power.
Página 276 - Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.
Página 277 - The clouds at my call have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command. I have restrained the rage of the Dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the Crab. The winds alone of all the elemental powers have hitherto refused my authority; and multitudes have perished by equinoctial tempests, which I found myself unable to prohibit or restrain.
Página 13 - By no act, or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation to papers of this description, directly or indirectly. We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live, and if fas, former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.
Página 203 - To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to " shut the gates...
Página 136 - There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Página 169 - He is a gentleman, steady in his principles, of nice honour, with abundance of learning : brave as the sword he wears, and bold as a lion : a sure friend and an irreconcileable enemy : would lose his life readily to serve his country ; and would not do a base thing to save it.