Review of a Late Pamphlet, Under the Signature of "Brutus.": By Hamilton [pseud.].A review of Robert James Turnbull's The crisis: or Essays on the usurpations of the federal government. By Brutus [pseud.]. Charleston :printed by A. E. Miller, 1827. |
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... regards as the alarming symptom of the times ; to cherish a national spirit , and to promote the union - he had ... regard the prevalence of pure moral principle - the prevalence , in one word , of that spirit , which forbids us to ...
... regards as the alarming symptom of the times ; to cherish a national spirit , and to promote the union - he had ... regard the prevalence of pure moral principle - the prevalence , in one word , of that spirit , which forbids us to ...
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... regard to the reception which your lucubrations have met with ; that you may , partially at least , have mistaken , like so many others , notoriety for fame , and the approving sounds of your immediate circle for the responses of the ...
... regard to the reception which your lucubrations have met with ; that you may , partially at least , have mistaken , like so many others , notoriety for fame , and the approving sounds of your immediate circle for the responses of the ...
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... regard to the means to be adopted for the accomplishment of its high purposes ; that it has endeavoured to do the good it was bound to do in the best and most effectual manner . But of this hereafter . It appears to me , that your book ...
... regard to the means to be adopted for the accomplishment of its high purposes ; that it has endeavoured to do the good it was bound to do in the best and most effectual manner . But of this hereafter . It appears to me , that your book ...
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... regard them - crowd on our observation more thickly than at present ? When , in some sections of the country , men resort to the polls on days of public election , to act over all the violence and fury of a Westminster mob , and when ...
... regard them - crowd on our observation more thickly than at present ? When , in some sections of the country , men resort to the polls on days of public election , to act over all the violence and fury of a Westminster mob , and when ...
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... regard this as a very favourable condition of affairs for the important annunciation I have to make . The house is on fire over your heads ; and , therefore , I trust you will be quite cool and dispassionate . And , as a further reason ...
... regard this as a very favourable condition of affairs for the important annunciation I have to make . The house is on fire over your heads ; and , therefore , I trust you will be quite cool and dispassionate . And , as a further reason ...
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Page 105 - ... 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 ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Page 16 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 17 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Page 11 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 80 - While these states retained the power of making regulations of trade, they had the power to cherish such institutions. By adopting the present, constitution, they have thrown the exercise of this power into other hands ; they must have done this with an expectation...
Page 76 - Resolved, that the Articles of Confederation ought to be so corrected and enlarged as to accomplish the objects proposed by their institution ; namely, ' common defence, security of liberty, and general welfare.
Page 80 - States retained the power of making regulations of trade, they had the power to cherish such institutions. By adopting the present Constitution, they have thrown the exercise of this power into other hands ; they must have done this with an expectation that those interests would not be neglected here.
Page 105 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 82 - The oppressions on our agriculture, in foreign ports, would thus be made the occasion of relieving it from a dependence on the councils and conduct of others, and of promoting arts, manufactures and population at home.
Page 91 - I think it both politic and just that the fostering hand of the general government should extend to all those manufactures which will tend to national utility.