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... patriots must realize the vital importance of harmonious relations between North and South , East and West . Any book whose tendency is to in- flame section against section , and to leave in the minds of the people a rankling sense of ...
... patriots must realize the vital importance of harmonious relations between North and South , East and West . Any book whose tendency is to in- flame section against section , and to leave in the minds of the people a rankling sense of ...
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... patriot . And few men have even shown more stanchness , more downright pluck in standing by his friends , even when he incurred abuse and losses by doing so . But the most thoroughly congenial tie he ever formed in the way of manly ...
... patriot . And few men have even shown more stanchness , more downright pluck in standing by his friends , even when he incurred abuse and losses by doing so . But the most thoroughly congenial tie he ever formed in the way of manly ...
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... patriots . It was in this sense that Vir- ginia's legislative action was the first gun of the Revolutionary War . And with Henry there was no drawing back . His was not the nature to flare up into a hot speech , which he would proceed ...
... patriots . It was in this sense that Vir- ginia's legislative action was the first gun of the Revolutionary War . And with Henry there was no drawing back . His was not the nature to flare up into a hot speech , which he would proceed ...
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... patriot whose rise to fame was due solely to his wonderful gift of oratory . Compared with a finished scholar , such as Jefferson or Madison , Patrick Henry was illiterate ; compared with George Washington he was not . 5 49 STAMP ACT TIMES.
... patriot whose rise to fame was due solely to his wonderful gift of oratory . Compared with a finished scholar , such as Jefferson or Madison , Patrick Henry was illiterate ; compared with George Washington he was not . 5 49 STAMP ACT TIMES.
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... patriots were led by Her- man Husbands , a large landowner of Quaker an- cestry , related to Benjamin Franklin . There was no blemish upon his character , and his motives at this crisis were precisely the same as those which inspired ...
... patriots were led by Her- man Husbands , a large landowner of Quaker an- cestry , related to Benjamin Franklin . There was no blemish upon his character , and his motives at this crisis were precisely the same as those which inspired ...
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Page 527 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 526 - ... that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties.
Page 526 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Page 527 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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.
Page 529 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 528 - ... Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 527 - Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe ; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others ; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation...
Page 528 - About to enter, fellow citizens upon the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently, those which ought to shape its administration.
Page 526 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and as capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty...
Page 529 - ... the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected.