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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... American citizen , however hum- ble or exalted - whether native or naturalized . They ex- tend over a vast range of valuable facts and historical illus- • - trations pertaining to the rights and immunities of citizens PREFACE.
... American citizen , however hum- ble or exalted - whether native or naturalized . They ex- tend over a vast range of valuable facts and historical illus- • - trations pertaining to the rights and immunities of citizens PREFACE.
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... under tyrants . " This fact is amply sus- tained by the testimony of all history . The knowledge which we acquire at our own expense is undoubtedly the tizer ak gge nt y pr racte par mper ations 6 PUBLISHER'S PREFACE .
... under tyrants . " This fact is amply sus- tained by the testimony of all history . The knowledge which we acquire at our own expense is undoubtedly the tizer ak gge nt y pr racte par mper ations 6 PUBLISHER'S PREFACE .
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... fact , though not in form . But whatever were the precise point of prosperity to which they had then attained , it was in spite of the discouragements of their supreme government that they attained it ; for the agriculture ...
... fact , though not in form . But whatever were the precise point of prosperity to which they had then attained , it was in spite of the discouragements of their supreme government that they attained it ; for the agriculture ...
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... fact that the European nations , at the very farthest , cannot do better than to take a lesson in government from our Republic ? Is it not our example which is stinging and goading the restive democrats of Europe into their desperate ...
... fact that the European nations , at the very farthest , cannot do better than to take a lesson in government from our Republic ? Is it not our example which is stinging and goading the restive democrats of Europe into their desperate ...
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... fact , was scarcely mentioned . But the Russian war has summoned us to Eu- rope ; American diplomacy has made monarchs thoughtful ; the United States have come to be regarded , not merely as a great nation , but as one to be courted and ...
... fact , was scarcely mentioned . But the Russian war has summoned us to Eu- rope ; American diplomacy has made monarchs thoughtful ; the United States have come to be regarded , not merely as a great nation , but as one to be courted and ...
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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.