The Old Dominion: Her Making and Her MannersC. Scribner's sons, 1908 - 394 pages |
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Page 195 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 195 - ... militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid...
Page 166 - Parliament of a majority directed by the King himself ; and its weight was seen in the steady action of such a majority. It was seen yet more in the subjection to which the ministry that bore North's name was reduced. George was in fact the minister through the years of its existence ; and the shame of the darkest hour of English history lies wholly at his door.
Page 195 - ... freedom of religion ; freedom of the press ; and 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 188 - ... had not yet accommodated their minds to a separation from the mother country : That some of them had expressly forbidden their delegates to consent to such a declaration...
Page 183 - Crown, our properties subjected to confiscation, our people, when captured, compelled to join in the murder and plunder of their relations and countrymen, and all former rapine and oppression of Americans declared legal and just. Fleets and armies are raised, and the aid of foreign troops engaged to assist these destructive purposes.
Page 42 - I will do it if you will allow me; only you must resolve and not delay or dally — the wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death.
Page 223 - To expound the principles and structure of government, the laws which regulate the intercourse of nations, those formed municipally for our own government, and a sound spirit of legislation...
Page 150 - That a Flag be flying on said day 30 feet high. " 'That a handsome entertainment be provided for the subscribers and their wives ; and such of them as are not so happy as to have wives may treat any other lady.
Page 224 - To enlighten them with mathematical and physical sciences, which advance the arts, and administer to the health, the subsistence, and comforts of human life ; And, generally, to form them to habits of reflection and correct action, rendering them examples of virtue to others, and of happiness within themselves.