The United States Democratic Review, Volum 7J.& H.G. Langley, 1840 Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 63.
Pàgina 7
... election . He loved lib- erty , rectitude and truth , nor would he for the wealth of worlds have put to the hazard of an after - life of remorse a conscience whose integrity he could as easily preserve unimpaired . But it is not our ...
... election . He loved lib- erty , rectitude and truth , nor would he for the wealth of worlds have put to the hazard of an after - life of remorse a conscience whose integrity he could as easily preserve unimpaired . But it is not our ...
Pàgina 14
... Elections are commonly looked upon as mere game , on which depends the division of party spoils , the distri- bution of chartered privileges , and the allotment of pecuniary rewards . The an- tagonist principles of government , which ...
... Elections are commonly looked upon as mere game , on which depends the division of party spoils , the distri- bution of chartered privileges , and the allotment of pecuniary rewards . The an- tagonist principles of government , which ...
Pàgina 15
... elections , in truth , a means of deciding mere questions of government ; or does not the decision of nume- rous questions affecting private interests , schemes of selfishness , rapacity , and cun- ning , depend upon them , even more ...
... elections , in truth , a means of deciding mere questions of government ; or does not the decision of nume- rous questions affecting private interests , schemes of selfishness , rapacity , and cun- ning , depend upon them , even more ...
Pàgina 35
... election officers , commanding them to hold elections in those places entitled to representation in Parliament . Returns of the elections in the form of indenture were sent to the sheriff , and by him attached to the original writ and ...
... election officers , commanding them to hold elections in those places entitled to representation in Parliament . Returns of the elections in the form of indenture were sent to the sheriff , and by him attached to the original writ and ...
Pàgina 36
... election . They at first had selected Sir Francis Seymour , and presented him to the King for confirmation , supposing the ancient usage in that respect to be a mere ceremony ; but the King , wishing to test the strength of his ...
... election . They at first had selected Sir Francis Seymour , and presented him to the King for confirmation , supposing the ancient usage in that respect to be a mere ceremony ; but the King , wishing to test the strength of his ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 505 - We will not say that a State may not relinquish it; that a consideration sufficiently valuable to induce a partial release of it may not exist; but as the whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.
Pàgina 397 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Pàgina 506 - The continued existence of a government would be of no great value if by implications and presumptions it was disarmed of the powers necessary to accomplish the ends of its creation, and the functions it was designed to perform transferred to the hands of privileged corporations.
Pàgina 220 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Pàgina 331 - No petition, memorial, resolution, or other paper, praying the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, or any State or Territory, or the slave trade between the States and the Territories of the United States in which it now exists, shall be received by this House, or entertained in any way whatever.
Pàgina 328 - Trade between the States or Territories of The United States in which it now exists, shall be received by this House, or entertained in any way whatever, be, and the same is hereby, rescinded.
Pàgina 339 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall— (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances...
Pàgina 328 - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states ; and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists.
Pàgina 327 - Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, and papers, touching the abolition of slavery, or the buying, selling, or transferring of slaves in any State, District, or Territory of the United States, be laid on the table, without being debated, printed, read, or referred, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Pàgina 313 - ... for asserting as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States were involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they had assumed and maintained, were thenceforward not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.