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........................................................... 37 REACTIONARY AND LIBERAL .................................................................... ... what about health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Health Service has over a million people waiting for ho... ...can be a better place.” — “Thank you commander. I recently saw a British television program that looked at the ecological footprint that ... ...000 liters of gasoline to power them. So that one little bouncing bundle of British joy is a disaster for the planet. “The more facts that a... ... may think America is for murders, it is way down the list when compared to Columbia and South Africa. Interpol told me that the per capita murder r... ...anized crime worldwide. South Africa has 700 well financed crime syndicates. Columbia is worse. And we certainly know a bit about the Italian and Sic... ...ve and compassion ahead of power and acquisition.” —“But commander, as a liberal Protestant Dr. King would still face the ire of the protestant e... ... 45 —“OK, love to meet a part of your past.” REACTIONARY AND LIBERAL —“We’re going to have a huge several month long reun... ... Nelson Mandelas, Thomas Jeffersons and Colin Powells are living in huts in Columbia, India, Africa or Bangladesh. The world is really severely handi...

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...e deists, moral value judgments tend to move from the conservative to the liberal in nearly every question from abortion to the death penalty. Yes C... ...the USA because of the evil wrought here by feminists, gays and political liberals.‖ 56 ---―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an En... ...ical document whose aim was to incite the colonists to revolt against the British.‖ --―I don‘t buy that Lee. We have always been a primarily Ch... ...s? ` ―I don‘t know any of the particulars of these studies, but the British Broadcasting Company in 2004 found that 10% of Americans didn‘t be... ...but didn‘t pursue the appeal as fast as he might have. In the meantime, a liberal governor, who had opposed the proposition was elected. 123 Gov... ...ve four weeks, as does Australia. Brazil gives four and a half weeks, but Columbia and New Zealand only give three. The U.S., Canada and Japan are ... ...ir influence is small in countries like Norway, it is gigantic in Russia, Columbia and South Africa. These anti-social organizations are often bette... .... Were all German soldiers anti-Semitic? Was Churchill the genius that the British say he was? Did Roosevelt really know that the Japanese were going... ...s us to do. ―After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans the Columbia Christians for Life announced that it was God‘s punishment becaus...

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... fledgling democracies and absolute monarchies to warring militias or one party rule—there are a bunch of hungry mouths crying for food while a numb... ...he isn‘t as bad as his father who had at least 70 wives and threw out the British Constitution he inherited. So his son, King Mswati III, lives a pr... ...tion reduction. Because the missionaries in their country have been mainly liberal Lutherans from Scandinavia they haven‘t had the bishops and the mu... ...he Fareed Zakaria interview program on CNN Sept 29, 2008 14. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. ___ (2008) 15. Gonzales v. O Centro 546 U.S. ...

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... sis- ter was blue for creative, and her brother orange, for people person/party type. Since then her mother had called Jana her golden girl and laugh... ...not. With the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was... ...h the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was nearly ... ...er thought about it before, real- ized he liked blue), their politics (she Liberal, he Conserva- tive), the movies she liked (Scott didn’t go to movie... ...suppose you’re right. But I do not want a big bash. Perhaps a small dinner party here at the house, with just the family , and maybe Danny and Nan. Hm... ...ot having to get up to go to work tantalized her. There had been an office party with gifts and cake to wish her well. Everyone had been complimentary... ... in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium, British Medical Journal, 2009, 339: b2772 [Lieve Van den Block, Reginald De...

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... war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not b... ...ayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating dis- cussi... ...ernational Government” is a very sympathetic contribution from the English liberal left; but the reader must understand that these two writers seem di... ...ce with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterly opposed. Walsh’s “World Rebuilt” is a good ex... ...ves or property of aliens in any part of the union outside the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to that. The federal government h... ...d single vote method of election is employed it has to be fought on purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republi... ...fic method of proportional representation could be used. But I suppose the party politician in this, as in most of our affairs, must still have his po... ... policy. It is a thing overdue. No doubt we have al- ready a literature of liberal imperialism and a considerable accumulation of declarations by this... ...rowned—that we should join with this renascent Germany and with these thus liberalized Powers and with our Allies and with the neutrals in one great L...

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... objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always lacking a s... ...ade tree, swell neighborhood, handy car line. $3700, $780 down and balance liberal, Babbitt- Thompson terms, cheaper than rent. DORCHESTER.—A corker! ... ..., I guess I can get Lyte here to loosen up for a building-mortgage on good liberal terms. Heavens, man, we’d be glad to oblige you! We don’t like thes... ...nt, and appreciated Sidney Finkelstein as “a mighty smart buyer and a good liberal spender,” it was to Vergil Gunch that he turned with enthusiasm. Mr... ... Old Shimmy Peters, that teaches Latin in the High, he’s a what-is-it from Columbia and he sits up all night reading a lot of greasy books and he’s al... ...e ever-memorable visit of the Earl of Sittingbourne. Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal indu... ...ving a great trip since we saw you in Zenith.” 213 Sinclair Lewis “Quite. British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully... ...reat trip since we saw you in Zenith.” 213 Sinclair Lewis “Quite. British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully, lookin... ...y, looking at Babbitt lifelessly. “How did you find business conditions in British Colum- bia? Or I suppose maybe you didn’t look into ‘em. Scenery an...

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.... But the special delight of the Samoan is the malanga. When people form a party and go from village to village, junketing and gossiping, they are sai... ...t, and whence he can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have... ...ains, supercar- goes, overseers, and clerks. These last mess together at a liberal board; the wages are high, and the staff is inspired with a strong ... ...the Germans landed and shed blood at Fangalii; it was only in 1876 that we British had our own misconceived little massa- cre at Mulinuu. I shall have... ...rom the plantation will seem to a Samoan very like orchard-breaking to the British schoolboy; at the best, it will be thought a gallant Robin-Hoodish ... ...and in drafting these proposals; I am only surprised he should have been a party to enforcing them, perhaps the chief error in these islands of a man ... ... we may surely say the late king – as “the High Chief Malietoa.” Had he no party, then? At that time, it is probable, he might have called some five-s... ... the Trenton, and the bay was suddenly enlivened with the strains of “Hail Columbia.” During a great part of the day the work of rescue was con- tinue...

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...oughout his entire life, and especially after he rose to leadership in his party, Lincoln was stirred to his depths by the sense of fealty to a lofty ... ...fering a bill looking to the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia, and by his repeated votes for the famous Wilmot Proviso, intended... ...ple, broke forth in an utterance louder than ever. The bonds of accustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt... ...e should be exceedingly glad to see slavery abolished in the Dis- trict of Columbia, he would, as a member of Congress, with his present views, not en... ...ent a step farther in passing a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. The plain people began to look at emancipation on a larger scale ... ...the meagre outfit of this coming leader of men, at the age when the future British Prime Minister or statesman emerges from the university as a double... ...barrel to each of my other generals.” The other must be as pleasing to the British as to the American ear. When pressed again on other grounds to get ... ... of being turned against each other, were directed exclusively against the British nation. And thus, from the force of circumstances, the basest princ... ...f the State had all the lands, the policy of the Legislature would be more liberal to all sections. He referred to the policy of the General Governmen...

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... were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, that the British Government should not interfere; that at one 50 The Writings of Ab... ...50 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five time they struggled with the British Government to be permit- ted to exclude the African slave trade,—if... ..., Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- ... ... we commend that policy of national exchanges which secures to working-men liberal wages, to agriculture remunerating prices, to mechanics and manufac... ..., Consul-General of the United States at Alexandria, a full account of the liberal, enlightened, and energetic proceed- ings which, on his complaint, ... ...ed. I venture to hope it will appear that we have practiced pru- dence and liberality toward foreign powers, averting causes of irritation and with fi... ...o the favorable consideration of Congress the interests of the District of Columbia. The insurrection has been the cause of much suffering and sacrifi... ...James S. Wadsworth, who shall also be military governor of the District of Columbia. 4. That this order be executed with such promptness and dispatch... ... the relief of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia” has this day been approved and signed. I have never doubted the c...

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...d their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly v... ...osition of the hereditary aristocracy of the Empire to the enlightened and liberal policy of the Tycoon, designed to bring the country into the societ... ...ble body of troops, it is believed, were ever more amply provided and more liberally and punctually paid, and it may be added that by no people were t... ... the sub- ject of our national domain. I may cite as evidence of this the liberal measures adopted in reference to actual settlers; the grant to the ... ... nor involuntary servitude, except in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; that the General Assembly may make su... ...to do the work over accord- ing to the law, in presence of the complaining party, and thereby to correct anything which might be found amiss. The com... ...o merchandise warehoused under bond the privilege of being exported to the British North American prov- inces adjoining the United States, in the mann... ... other ports, situated on the frontiers of the United States adjoining the British North American provinces, as may hereafter be found expedient, may ... ... your continued patronage the be- nevolent institutions of the District of Columbia which have hitherto been established or fostered by Congress, and ...

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...ence, leaning our faces on our hands and look ing at the fire, one of our party said, with the solemn air of a man who had made a discovery, ‘What a ... ...n an unlimited order for a good dinner — especially when it is left to the liberal construction of my fault less friend, Mr. Radley, of the Adelphi H... ... not mistaken in adding, a large majority of those who are attached to the liberal professions there, have been educated at this same school. Whatever... ...s as much as many of the worst among those fallen sinners, to whom you are liberal in nothing but the preachment of perdition! As I rose to quit the r... ...or an answer. ‘Yes. Every house without a signal will be fired upon by the British troops. No harm will be done to the others. No harm at all. Those t... ...try at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. I visited both houses ... ...dical College; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes... ... they should, within two years, sing ‘Yankee Doodle in Hyde Park, and Hail Columbia in the scarlet courts of Westminster!’ I found it a pretty town, a... ...ch has just been presented for the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, to pieces. ’—’I warn the abolitionists, ’ says South Carolina, ‘i...

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... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ...miles square, was cut out of the two States and was called the District of Columbia. The greater portion of this district was taken from Maryland, and... ...gement was made, the State of Virginia petitioned to have their portion of Columbia back again, and this petition was granted. Now it is felt that the... ...or or as a Representative. Mount Vernon was never within the Dis- trict of Columbia. When I first made inquiry on the subject, I was told that Mount V... ... America V ol. 2 facts, was not the case. I had gone down the river with a party of ladies, and we were opposite to Mount Vernon; but on that occasion... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ...er mile. As far as I could learn, the servants of the post-office are less liberally paid in the States than with us, except- ing as regards two class... ...beer. The attendance is good, pro- vided always that the payment for it is liberal. The cost is generally too high, and unfortunately grows larger and...

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...is manhood free and unrestricted. The cordial and manly greet- ings of the British and Irish audiences in public, and the refinement and elegance of t... ...te to which he was pledged. And one stirring thought, inseparable from the British idea of the evangel of freedom, must have smote his ear from every ... ... in the United States, by free colored men, born free, and some of them of liberal education and fair talents for this work; but, one after an- other,... ... it does not surpass the style of Hugh Miller, which was the wonder of the British literary public, until he unrav- eled the mystery in the most inter... ...GRESS I MADE—SLA- VERY—WHAT I HEARD SAID ABOUT IT—THIR- TEEN YEARS OLD—THE Columbian Orator—A RICH SCENE—A DIALOGUE—SPEECHES OF CHATHAM, SHERIDAN, PIT... ...ade enough money to buy what was then a very popular school book, viz: the Columbian Orator. I bought this addition to my library, of Mr. Knight, on T... ...in myself. This, however, was not all the fanaticism which I found in this Columbian Orator. I met there one of Sheridan’s mighty 104 My Bondage and ... ...cabin passenger. American preju- dice against color triumphed over British liberality and civi- lization, and erected a color test and condition for c... ...peration extended to me by the friends of my despised race; the prompt and liberal manner with which the press has rendered me its aid; the glorious e...

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...rest expression. In general, the story is best told in letters to the home party; while thoughts are generally best expressed in the correspondence wi... ...s song at a cricket or foot-ball dinner as joyfully as the youngest of the party; but if mirth sank into coarseness and ribaldry, that instant Patteso... ...wish you many years of health and happiness, of success and honour in your liberal profession; the duties of which have been and are and I trust ever ... ...mbers. He threw himself into the work with hearty zeal; he supported every liberal proposal. T o his loyal fidelity and solid common sense is largely ... ... days of college reform the only sure and constant nucleus of the floating-Liberal majority consisted of Patteson and one other. Whatever others did, ... ..., a great portion of it on the expediency of the islands being taken under British protection, also much respecting the Church of New Zealand, which i... ...d in the midst of a heathen popu- lation, having refused protection from a British man-of-war, it gives a grandeur to the following narrative:— ‘June ... ...ecration was not by Royal mandate, as in the case of Bishops of sees under British jurisdiction; but the Duke of Newcastle, then Colonial Secretary, w... ... a method employed in En- gland, for raising supplies for that Mission and Columbia, Honolulu, &c. I never think of all that fuss of the four Uni- ver...

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...bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks not now leg... ...ur writings, and much loved for your generosity to us and your devotion to liberal principles generally. Y ou are quite right as to the importance to ... ...ton himself endured greater physical hard- ships than if he had remained a British subject, yet he was a happy man because he had engaged in benefitin... ...cted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia from any other State shall be delivered up or in any way impeded o... ...argely seeds, cereals, plants, and cuttings, and has already published and liberally diffused much valuable information in anticipation. of a more ela... ...nefit of a large class of our most valuable citizens, and I trust that the liberal basis upon which it has been organized will not only meet your appr... ...y. The great interior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British domin- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line alo... ...homestead, is our ample resource. Were our territory as limited as are the British Isles, very certainly our population could not expand as stated. In... ...d this without any apparent consciousness of evil from it. The District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Dela- 191 The Writings of Abraham ...

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...ghts of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but it will, ul... ...ople has been clearly observable – In what respects all who emi- grated to British America were similar – In what they dif- fered – Remark applicable ... ...ristocracy, but simply the class of the rich and that of the poor. All the British colonies had then a great degree of similar- ity at the epoch of th... ...emigration went on. The religious and political passions which ravaged the British Empire during the whole reign of *The emigrants who founded the Sta... ... *The number of States has now risen to 46 (1874), besides the District of Columbia. 175 Tocqueville all been nurtured at a time when the spirit of l... ...tre, Franklin, Fayette, Mont- gomery, Luzerne, Dauphin, Butler, Alleghany, Columbia, Northampton, Northumberland, and Philadelphia, for the year 1830.... ...services whatsoever are remunerated, and the most subordi- nate agents are liberally paid. If this kind of government ap- pears to me to be useful and... ... it for their own descendants. The English aristocracy is perhaps the most liberal which ever existed, and no body of men has ever, uninterruptedly, f... ...nity or kindness its law, but it extolled generosity; it set more store on liberal- ity than on benevolence; it allowed men to enrich them- selves by ...

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... naturalists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientifi... ...lldog. Their remarks were possibly not in tended to reach the ears of the party, but certainly were not so cautiously whispered but they occasionally... ...his own shape! It were well that our townsmen tarred and feathered the old British wizard!” And, as he got further off, two or three little blackguard... ...ish, and become more American than the Americans themselves in repudiating British prejudices or principles, habits, mode of thought, and everything t... ...gth (in a society split up into many sects) of being able to rely upon the party sympathies of any one of them. The mob hated him with the blind senti... ... his condition, plans, and purposes. He represented himself as having been liberally educated, bred to the law, but (to his misfortune) having turned ... ...shes, and the dinner fairly set in. The genial Warden seemed to have given liberal or ders to the attendants, for they spared not to offer hock, cham... ...ith glass in hand, in honor of the Ambas sador; the band struck up “Hail, Columbia”; and our hero marshalled his thoughts as well as he might for the... ...robably had not heretofore; while Redclyffe, whose potations had been more liberal, and who was feverish and disturbed, tried the effect of a little b...

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...wn that for the bestowal of that kind of property upon his favourites, the liberality and gratitude of the Norman were as remarkable as those virtues ... ... pour out his whole heart and soul to you; that he doesn’t make you a very liberal and indeed rather an extravagant allowance; or, to be more wild and... ...ay be stated in corroboration of Mr Pecksniff, that any pupil had the most liberal permission to mention anything in this way that suggested itself to... ...ere; but he wrote home that him and his friends was always a- singing, Ale Columbia, and blowing up the President, so I suppose it was something in th... ...himself of this word: ‘Jolly!’ CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE BURDEN WHEREOF, IS HAIL COLUMBIA! A DARK AND DREARY night; people nestling in their beds or cir cl... ...h of Mr Brick’s articles had become at that time the most obnoxious to the British Parliament and the Court of Saint James’s?’ ‘Upon my word,’ said Ma... ...espondent. 250 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!’ said Jefferson Brick. ‘Master!’ ‘What’s the matte... ...nt dreams were lost to view, appealed in these words— ‘Oh, but for such, Columbia’s days were done; Rank without ripe- ness, quickened without sun, ... ...amily of the splendour of that brilliant festival (comprehending the whole British Peerage and Court Calendar) to which they were specially invited, a...

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...y James tainers who come down by train when people in the coun- try give a party; they represented the contract for carry- ing the party on. That was ... ...he simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity. Mrs. ... ...o the consumption of beer by her maid- servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance o... ...ement of the street. The two houses together formed a single dwelling, the party-wall having been removed and the rooms placed in communication. These... ...neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of looking at life, of which ... ... Lady puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about En- gland, about the British constitution, the English char- acter, the state of politics, the m... ...o amused themselves, time and again, with talk- ing of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it;... ...ge extent in self-defence, for her cousin amused himself with calling her “Columbia “ and accusing her of a patriotism so heated that it scorched. He ... ...he heritage of the past. I should hold it tight.” “I think one ought to be liberal,” Mildred argued gen- tly. “We’ve always been so, even from the ear...

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... Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 35 had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, fr... ... left, like their betters, to their own exertions. The most of King Arthur’s British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wor... ... all rational measurement the one and only actually great man in that whole British world; and yet there and then, just as in the remote England of m... ...r as if she had been a leaf out of the gospel. It kind of sizes up the whole party. And think of the simple ways of this court: this wandering wench h... ...its life. The farmers were bound to throw in something, to sort of offset my liberality, whether I would or no; so I let them give me a flint and ste... ...nate — they come together with great ran dom, and a spear is brast, and one party brake his shield and the other one goes down, horse and man, over h... ...and wife of King Uriens. monarch of a realm about as big as the District of Columbia — you could stand in the middle of it and throw bricks into the... ...t it — with delicacy, until at last it struck me that as I had already been liberal in inventing wordy gratitude for the king, it would be just the t... ...mmon seaman who might be going on a cold voyage, and bound up my face with a liberal bandage, saying I had a toothache. This concealed my worst bruise...

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...ish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bribed my grandmother’s review—the British. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thank’d me duly b... ...of those. As for the ladies, I have nought to say, A wanderer from the British world of fashion, Where I, like other ‘dogs, have had my day,’ ... ...they wish’d to see: But if it gives them pleasure, be it so; This is a liberal age, and thoughts are free: Meantime Apollo plucks me by the ea... ...e. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Four” 114 By one of these, the buffo of the party, Juan was told about their curious case; For although destine... ...corporal Some Cossacques, hovering like hawks round a hill, Had met a party towards the twilight’s fall, One of whom spoke their tongue—or we... ...ecruits with wives.’ ‘May it please your excellency,’ thus replied Our British friend, ‘these are the wives of others, And not our own. I am t... ...d the balance of the world? Who reign O’er congress, whether royalist or liberal? Who rouse the shirtless patriots of Spain? (That make old ... ...— Jew Rothschild, and his fellow Christian, Baring. Those, and the truly liberal Lafitte, Are the true lords of Europe. Every loan Is not a ... ... seats a nation or upsets a throne. Republics also get involved a bit; Columbia’s stock hath holders not unknown On ‘Change; and even thy silv...

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...ontain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river ... ...l ing with the heat; they encountered and exchanged civilities with another party of Indians; and at last they reached the mouth of the Arkansas (abo... ...aper cannot be indepen dent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two thirds of hi... ...the river now, ain’t it, sir?” “Well, I should say so! Bank full IS a pretty liberal stage.” “Seems to be a good deal of current here.” “Good deal don... ...creased population and wealth, and in the intellec tual advancement and the liberalizing of opinion which go naturally with these. And yet, if one ma... ...hem. Here is a picture from the adver tisement of the “Female Institute” of Columbia; Tennessee. The following remark is from the same advertisement—... ...e nation to cel ebrate the battle of New Orleans—Jackson’s victory over the British, January 8, 1815. The war had ended, the two na tions were at pe... ...y friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possi... ...verthrown by passion. I do not speak of the want of justice, and of fair and liberal interpretation: these, perhaps, were hardly to be ex pected. Ot...

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... the enemy had done to him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull sch... ...rn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand... ...nited States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the British prosperous which winters either in the high Alps or along the Rivie... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ..., unhampered thought through every department of the national life, a King liberal without laxity and patriotic without pettiness or vul- garity. Such... ... over- values the commonplace virtues of mediocre men. One of the greatest Liberal statesmen in the time of Queen Victoria never held office because h... ...ty. It has a common medium of expression in the English tongue, a unity of liberal and tolerant purpose amidst its enormous variety of localised life ... ...of any highly organised national system. Govern- ment from the district of Columbia is in itself the repudia- tion of any highly organised national sy...

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...dulge in Utopian dreams and failed to found any strong or stable political party. T o Marx, in collaboration with Engels, are due both the for- mulati... ...ssociation. From 1849 onward the greater part of his time was spent in the British Museum, accumulating, with German patience, the materi- als for his... ...ternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been de- cried as communistic by its oppon... ...eir brain ceased to think, their eyes to see. The thoroughly “respectable” British jurymen answered by a verdict that sent them to the next assizes on... ...against revolution. He protests against the attitude of undue hostility to Liberalism which is com- mon among Socialists, and he blunts the edge of th... ...lution- ary ardor and tend to transform Socialists into a left wing of the Liberal Party. But the increasing prosperity of wage-earn- 27 Bertrand Rus... ...ect Disraeli and Bismarck were shrewder judges of human nature than either Liberals or Socialists. It has become increasingly difficult to put trust i... ...r.[See pp. 42-43, and 160 of “Syndicalism in France,” Louis Levine, Ph.D. (Columbia University Studies in Political Science, vol. xlvi, No. 3.) This i... ... uproot them. The Times (Oct. 13, 1910), which almost single-handed in the British Press has kept creditably abreast of Continental Syndicalism, thus ...

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...save only that of slavery. So far as I can perceive, by such union neither party need yield any- thing on the point in difference between them. If the... ...ant-at-arms, Homer of New Jersey door-keeper, and McCormick of District of Columbia postmaster. The Whig majority in the House is so small that, toget... ...hould choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,—I see... ...s, how could you stop him? You may say to him,—I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it, if you ... ...tely your son, A. LINCOLN. 1849 BILL TO ABOLISH SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Co- lumbia be inst... ...ates, in Congress assembled, That no person not now within the District of Columbia, nor now owned by any person or persons now resident within it, no... ... would never do more in this respect than what would be dictated by a just liberality. The apprehension, therefore, that the public lands were in dang... ... he was again elected Speaker. Early in 1814, being the period of our last British war, Mr. Clay was sent as commissioner, with others, to negotiate a... ...outh as well as North, shall we make no effort to arrest this? Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension that 176 The W...

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...ly comforts adds the improvement of the mind and morals. We have there fore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household u... ... a pretext for them has been given by the United States, and of the fair and liberal attempt to induce a revoca tion of them, can not be anticipated.... ...o just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surren der our own, too liberal to indulge unworthy prejudices ourselves and too elevated not to ... ...ver, both the Capitol and Execu tive Mansion would be burned by an invading British gar rison, and the city thrown into a panic. ABOUT TO ADD THE... ...d death on maimed and defenseless captives. And, what was never before seen, British commanders have extorted victory over the unconquerable valor of ... ...ar to an honorable issue. Our nation is in number more than half that of the British Isles. It is composed of a brave, a free, a virtuous, and an inte... ...s can never be realized by any agency of mine. The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free Ameri... ...citizen—the grant to Congress of exclusive jurisdiction in the Dis trict of Columbia can be interpreted, so far as respects the aggregate people of t... ...the superior. It has also passed a model child labor law for the District of Columbia. In previous administrations an arbitration law for interstate c...

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...e pangs which Nature calls upon mothers to endure. As was the necessity of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northe... ...ration gave violent offense to the North, and has been taken as indicating British sympathy with the cause of the seceders. I am not going to explain—... ...should be defined. Reticence in the matter was not within the power of the British government. It behooved the Foreign Secretary of State to declare o... ...lation of the United States as it stood in 1860,— The separate District of Columbia, in which is included Washington, the seat of the Federal Governme... ...f America. What was the North to do; this foolish North, which has been so liberally told by us that she has taken up arms for nothing, that she is fi... ...heir arrangements. And this has been achieved in a great degree by private liberality. Men in America are not as a rule anxious to leave large fortune... ... the bad days of James II. had come, this charter was considered to be too liberal, and order was given that it should be suspended. One Sir Edmund An... ...same. These four States, by two of which the capital, with its District of Columbia, is sur- rounded, might be gained or might be lost. And these four... ...any of the poor of Baltimore had lived, was desecrated in my eyes by those columbiads. The neat earth-works were ugly, as looked upon by me; and thoug...

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...troduction to a longer and more momentous narrative. One night there was a party at Mr. Barnard’s, and both Augustus and myself were not a little into... .... He went to sleep, as I thought, very quietly (it being near one when the party broke up), and without saying a word on his favorite topic. It might ... ...rd’s in time for breakfast—which, luckily, was somewhat late, owing to the party over night. I suppose all at the table were too much fatigued themsel... ...vided, and selected the expedition of Lewis and Clarke to the mouth of the Columbia. With this I amused myself for some time, when, growing sleepy, I ... ...ommotion on the deck of the stranger, who im- mediately afterward ran up a British flag, and, hauling her wind, bore up directly upon us. In half an h... ...nally abandoned, and in 1817 the islands were taken posses- sion of by the British Government, who sent a detachment for that purpose from the Cape of... ...t, however, retain them long; but, upon the evacuation of the country as a British possession, two or three English families took up their residence t... ...arrangement with Dr. Templeton, by which the latter, in consideration of a liberal annual allowance, had con- sented to devote his time and medical ex... ...iege and the stubborn- ness of the resistance. In charity no one gave more liberally or with a worse grace. For the fine arts, and especially for the ...

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...n Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my gran... ...the country ruined 8 Personal Memoirs beyond recovery when the Democratic party lost control in 1860. Her family, which was large, inherited her view... ... war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June, 1821, my father, Jesse R. Grant, m... ...5 U. S. Grant States, over Mr. Lincoln, or any other representative of his party; unless it was immediately after some of John Morgan’s men, in his ce... ... territory around the City of Mexico, somewhat larger than the District of Columbia—and they are not an institution in any part of the country. During... ...weeks at Benicia barracks, and then was ordered to Fort V ancouver, on the Columbia River, 107 U. S. Grant then in Oregon Territory. During the winte... ...y. During the winter of 1852-3 the territory was divided, all north of the Columbia River being taken from Oregon to make Washington T erritory. Price... ...listed men are not included. In the North- ern armies the estimate is most liberal, taking in all con- nected with the army and drawing pay. Estimated... ...ination of the war, but also because foreign governments, particularly the British Government, were constantly threatening that unless ours could main...

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...between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had... ...l right. He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “S... ...touched yet. After this little fracas is fixed up, you an’ me’ll make up a party an’ ‘tend to it. Marcus did not answer for a long time, then he said:... ...ed officer of the regiment, an “unmixed” Bhil, a Companion of the Order of British India, with thirty-five years’ spotless service in the army, and a ... ...father would have done; and when Bukta appeared in the morning with a most liberal supply of food, said nothing of the over- night desertion. Bukta wo... ...n unseemly sight, but the proprieties had been left ages ago, with the tea-party at Amritsar Station, fifteen hundred miles to the north. “They are co... ...ment to her steam- whistle, the twelve-hundred-ton ocean-going steam-yacht Columbia, lying at her private pier, to take to his office, at an average s... ...led by petticoats in the court; and after one long afternoon at a gar- den-party, he explained to his major that this sort of thing was “ futile priff...

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...he herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie! Lands where the north west Columbia winds, and where the south west Colorado winds! Land of the east... ...re with dimes on the eyes walking, To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning, Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast ... ...and lock’d in its mountains, The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, an... ... in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia, Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly... ...o introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia; In liberty’s name welcome immortal! clasp hands, And ever hence... ... of a sudden unlook’d for by defiles through the woods, gain’d at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns... ... he wrung his hands in anguish. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 310 Meanwhile the British manoeuvr’d to draw us out for a pitch’d battle, But we dared not ... ... TO A C OMMON P ROSTITUTE Be composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude y... ...nents, seas, Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally, Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out...