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William Leggett. A COLLECTION OF THE POLITICAL WRITINGS or WILLIAM LEGGETT . BANK OF UNITED STATES . [ From the Evening Post , March , 1834. ] In answer to the many objections which are urged with great force of argument against the United ...
William Leggett. A COLLECTION OF THE POLITICAL WRITINGS or WILLIAM LEGGETT . BANK OF UNITED STATES . [ From the Evening Post , March , 1834. ] In answer to the many objections which are urged with great force of argument against the United ...
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... United States Bank on moral grounds ; who view with dismay its prodigious means of corruption ; and shudder with abhorrence at the free and audacious use it has made of those means ; yet accede to it the praise of having at least ...
... United States Bank on moral grounds ; who view with dismay its prodigious means of corruption ; and shudder with abhorrence at the free and audacious use it has made of those means ; yet accede to it the praise of having at least ...
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... United States Bank has totally and most signally failed . What is regulating the currency ? It is the furnish- ing of a medium of circulation , either metalic or con- vertible at par , equal in amount to the real business of the country ...
... United States Bank has totally and most signally failed . What is regulating the currency ? It is the furnish- ing of a medium of circulation , either metalic or con- vertible at par , equal in amount to the real business of the country ...
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... United States Bank never caused distress of this kind ? Has it never caused the amount of circula- ting medium to fluctuate ? Has it never stimulated business into unhealthy activity at one time , and with held its proper aliment at ...
... United States Bank never caused distress of this kind ? Has it never caused the amount of circula- ting medium to fluctuate ? Has it never stimulated business into unhealthy activity at one time , and with held its proper aliment at ...
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... United States Bank , in- stead of regulating the currency , poured out its issues at such a lavish rate that trade and speculation were excited in a preternatural manner . But the inevitable conse quences of over issues did not fail to ...
... United States Bank , in- stead of regulating the currency , poured out its issues at such a lavish rate that trade and speculation were excited in a preternatural manner . But the inevitable conse quences of over issues did not fail to ...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 1 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 1 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
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Página 199 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 254 - Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election.
Página 194 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature, shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property for local or private purposes.
Página 162 - 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 120 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has...
Página 119 - Whether the consequences be prejudicial or not, if there be an illegal exercise of power, it is to be resisted in the proper manner. Even if no harm or inconvenience result from transgressing the boundary, the intrusion is not to be suffered to pass unnoticed. Every encroachment, great or small, is important enough to awaken the attention of those who are intrusted with the preservation of a constitutional...
Página 166 - ... take a stand against all new grants of monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy.
Página 109 - ... of their menaced rights? Have they not the right to act in concert when their opponents act in concert? Nay, is it not their bounden duty to combine against the only enemy they have to fear as yet in this free country: monopoly and a great paper system that grinds them to the dust? Truly, this is strange republican doctrine, and this is a strange republican country, where men cannot unite in one common effort, in one common cause, without rousing the cry of danger to the rights of person and...
Página 177 - ... come into the world completely ignorant of every thing which is the common subject of conversation among gentlemen and men of the world. There are no public institutions for the education of women, and there is accordingly nothing useless, absurd, or fantastical in the common course of their education. They are taught what their parents or guardians judge it necessary or useful for them to learn ; and they are taught nothing else.
Página 120 - The Parliament of Great Britain asserted a right to tax the colonies in all cases whatsoever ; and it was precisely on this question that they made the Revolution turn. The amount of taxation was trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.