A Voice to America: Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: with a Review of the Causes of the Decline and Failure of the Republics of South America, Mexico, and of the Old World; Applied to the Present Crisis in the United StatesE. Walker, 1855 - 404 sidor |
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... equal to any emergency . Within less than three - quarters of a century of national life under this constitution , the United States of America have arisen to a prouder height of physical strength and of moral power , than has ever been ...
... equal to any emergency . Within less than three - quarters of a century of national life under this constitution , the United States of America have arisen to a prouder height of physical strength and of moral power , than has ever been ...
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... equal to the whole existence of our mighty empire . Men are this day alive and well who voted for the adoption of the Constitution , and for Washington in 1789. At the end of the Revo- lutionary War , we numbered about three millions of ...
... equal to the whole existence of our mighty empire . Men are this day alive and well who voted for the adoption of the Constitution , and for Washington in 1789. At the end of the Revo- lutionary War , we numbered about three millions of ...
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... equal to three quar- ters of the distance around the world . Now we have the largest mercantile marine on earth . Fourteen hundred steamers , measuring five hundred thousand tons , and seven- teen thousand sail vessels , registering ...
... equal to three quar- ters of the distance around the world . Now we have the largest mercantile marine on earth . Fourteen hundred steamers , measuring five hundred thousand tons , and seven- teen thousand sail vessels , registering ...
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... equals all the statements which have heretofore been considered " extravagant gas- conade ; " the Westminster Review terms our Republic " the pole - star to which the eye of struggling nations turns , " and , in a long article ...
... equals all the statements which have heretofore been considered " extravagant gas- conade ; " the Westminster Review terms our Republic " the pole - star to which the eye of struggling nations turns , " and , in a long article ...
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... equal , that approached to it ? Go to antiquity - to Greece , to Rome - travel over France , Spain , Germany , and the whole of modern continental Europe , -all was comparative gloom ; political sci- ence had not risen . Go to the isles ...
... equal , that approached to it ? Go to antiquity - to Greece , to Rome - travel over France , Spain , Germany , and the whole of modern continental Europe , -all was comparative gloom ; political sci- ence had not risen . Go to the isles ...
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A Voice to America: Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: with a ... Frederick Saunders,Thomas Bangs Thorpe Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
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A Voice to America; Or, the Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: With A ... Thomas Bangs Thorpe Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
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Sida 398 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial ; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it.
Sida 32 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Sida 397 - Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Sida 394 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Sida 32 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Sida 32 - Puritan was made up of two different men, — the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Sida 400 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Sida 398 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; 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...
Sida 32 - ... before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account.
Sida 395 - That from and after the fourth day of July next, the Flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.