The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages, of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1857 ; Together with Their Farewell Addresses, and Illustrated with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents. With an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States ... Also, the Constitutions of the Most Important States in the Union |
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... period for a new election of a citizen to adminis- ter the executive government of the United States being not far distant , and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be ...
... period for a new election of a citizen to adminis- ter the executive government of the United States being not far distant , and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be ...
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... period , a great nation , to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and be- nevolence . Who can doubt but that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan ...
... period , a great nation , to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and be- nevolence . Who can doubt but that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan ...
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... period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon , to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations ...
... period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon , to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations ...
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... exercised by citizens se- .ected , at regular periods , by their neighbors , to make and execute laws for the general good . Can any thing essential , any thing more than mere ornament and deco- 36 THE TRUE REPUBLICAN .
... exercised by citizens se- .ected , at regular periods , by their neighbors , to make and execute laws for the general good . Can any thing essential , any thing more than mere ornament and deco- 36 THE TRUE REPUBLICAN .
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... period . The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous . Connected with some by treaties , and with all by commerce , no important event there can be in- different to us . Such circumstances call with ...
... period . The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous . Connected with some by treaties , and with all by commerce , no important event there can be in- different to us . Such circumstances call with ...
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Page 26 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 133 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...
Page 27 - Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,...
Page 56 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions...
Page 22 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control; counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Page 21 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Page 23 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Page 22 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small, but artful and enterprising minority of the community : and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Page 24 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 20 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.