Some Southern QuestionsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 318 páginas |
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... American citizenship . He can grasp it , if he wishes it , without delay or wrong . It is his if he com- plies with the law , whose equal and fair provisions compel him to be a better citizen of his country , and a more intelligent and ...
... American citizenship . He can grasp it , if he wishes it , without delay or wrong . It is his if he com- plies with the law , whose equal and fair provisions compel him to be a better citizen of his country , and a more intelligent and ...
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... American spirit ? Will he ever become a citizen suf- ficiently intelligent so as to become a substantial integral portion of the American voting population ? Will the progress shown on our part by the adoption of this free and equal ...
... American spirit ? Will he ever become a citizen suf- ficiently intelligent so as to become a substantial integral portion of the American voting population ? Will the progress shown on our part by the adoption of this free and equal ...
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... American citizenship and at the same time wallow in ignorance . It is a wrong to the white man , which will surely bear its fruit . I have not understood in my investigation of the Anglo - Saxon that he needs to have any handicap put on ...
... American citizenship and at the same time wallow in ignorance . It is a wrong to the white man , which will surely bear its fruit . I have not understood in my investigation of the Anglo - Saxon that he needs to have any handicap put on ...
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... American people , there is no question about our ability to grapple with it . Let us not refine . Let us discuss the question plainly , yet with mutual and decent for- bearance both for the white and for the black and for the North and ...
... American people , there is no question about our ability to grapple with it . Let us not refine . Let us discuss the question plainly , yet with mutual and decent for- bearance both for the white and for the black and for the North and ...
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... American nation should turn the Negro race over to itself at this period of its evolution . In my judgment , the Negro is not ready to be left to himself . It is the duty of the people who brought him here to stand by him and help him ...
... American nation should turn the Negro race over to itself at this period of its evolution . In my judgment , the Negro is not ready to be left to himself . It is the duty of the people who brought him here to stand by him and help him ...
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Página 211 - 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...
Página 254 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 211 - ... a well-disciplined 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...
Página 4 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Página 190 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 39 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 213 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Página 183 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Página 211 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; 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...
Página 211 - ... 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...