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...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ...either by two-thirds of both the houses of the general Congress, or by the legislatures of two-thirds of the States; and must, when so proposed, be ra... ...f two-thirds of the States; and must, when so proposed, be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States, (Article V.) There can, I thin... ...ion claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nationality or empire ever rebelled against the government established on b... ...he Northern States; that in lieu of any such suffering, they owe all their national greatness to the Northern States; that they have been lifted up, b... ...s and by the agricultural prosperity of the Western States, to a degree of national consideration and respect through the world at large which never c... ...esent moment, all Congress voting to- gether, with the full consent of the legislatures of thirty- three States, could not constitutionally put down s... ...prevails to the same extent in America, either in Congress or in the State legislatures. As regards Washing- ton, this good result may be assisted by ...

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...ance, beyond a doubt, but not the mart of America. New York is essentially national in interests, position, and pursuits. No one thinks of the place a... ...States; in fact, the votes of these Conventions, or that of the respective legislatures acting in the same capac- ity , is nothing but the highest spe... ...nal to decide whether it is in conformity with the principles of the great national compact; thus demonstrating, as we as- sume, that the sovereignty ... ... Congress, says, at the same time, by an unavoidable implication, that the national legislature shall have all authority to control the consequences o... ...s to this hope with a buoyancy and fondness that are becoming pro- foundly national. W e have a thousand weaknesses, and make many blunders, beyond a ... ...on of government. And thus it is, that we hear men, in their places in the national legislature, boasting of their allegiance to its inter- ests and m...

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...rom more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the National territory by Congressional prohibition. Four days later, commenced... ...ich ended in repealing that Congressional prohibition. This opened all the National terri- tory to slavery, and was the first point gained. But, so fa... ... (as he expresses it) the South to a war upon the North for the purpose of nationalizing slavery. Now, it is singular enough, if you will carefully re... ... to end, So much, then, as to my disposition—my wish to have all the State legislatures blotted out, and to have one consoli- dated government, and a ... ...at same Supreme Court some twenty-five or thirty years ago deciding that a National Bank was constitutional? I ask, if somebody does not remem- ber th... ...nal Bank was constitutional? I ask, if somebody does not remem- ber that a National Bank was declared to be constitutional? Such is the truth, whether... ...ced where our fathers originally placed it,—I wish to annihilate the State Legislatures, to force cotton to grow upon the tops of the Green Mountains,...

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...ially attained. During the ex- isting war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. Thi... ...shall operate in such manner as, while protecting western Virginia and the national capital from dan- ger or insult, it shall in the speediest manner ... ...HE SEVERAL STATES: The capture of New Orleans, Norfolk, and Corinth by the national forces has enabled the insurgents to concentrate a large force at ... ...threaten us on the Potomac and elsewhere. Until we have re-established the national authority, all these places must be held, and we must keep a respe... ... purpose, of Mr. Durant, or that he is conscious of any purpose other than national and patriotic ones. Still, if there were a class of men who, havin... ...of both Houses concurring), That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures (or conventions) of the sev- eral States as amendments to the ... ..., all or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures (or conventions), to be valid as part or parts of the said Con...

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...it at their own pleasure; and that all others—individuals, free States and national Government—are constitutionally bound to leave them alone about it... ...ch make me believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting... ...headed off, if you can. Call Wagley’s attention to it and have him and the National Democrat for Rep. to counteract it as far as they can. Y ours as e... ...or to Jefferson to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and c... ...y thing that will greatly endanger our cause, if it be not kept out of our national convention. There is another thing our friends are doing which giv... ...entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their provisional legislatures, where their representation could alone be preserved, in all c...

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... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have every- where turned to the advantage of democracy; ... ...ruling passions, and, in short, of all that constitutes what is called the national character; we should then find the expla- nation of certain custom... ...le. At the period when the peoples of Europe landed in the New World their national characteristics were already completely formed; each of them had a... ... be proposed by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States. Fifteen amendments of ... ..., and all the details of the administration are reserved to the provincial legislatures. It is impossible to imag- ine how much this division of sover... ...the legislature of each State, and the Federal Constitution converts these legislatures into so many elec- toral bodies, which return the members of t... ...tors are elected by an indirect application of universal suffrage; for the legislatures which name them are not aristo- cratic or privileged bodies wh...

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... recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consideration, and that is in the working class mo... ...ocial revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest soc... ...g rapidly and were now changing still more rapidly, the law-courts and the legislatures of the world were struggling desperately to meet modern demand... ...my frequently and thoroughly and placed it at last, with the adop- tion of national service, upon a footing that would have seemed very imposing to th... ...bankment. He made his way through the galleries of the booksellers and the National Gallery, which had been open continuously day and night to all dec... ...fill his vacant mind with the sounds and fury of exasperated suspicion and national ag- gression. For example, Barnet describes the London crowd as no...

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...Frederick Douglass passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul every thing t... ...oclivity or bent, to active toil and visible progress, are in the strictly national direction, delighting to outstrip “all creation.” Nor have the nat... ...duct it was intended to sustain; for, besides awakening some- thing like a national interest in me, and securing me an au- dience, it brought out coun... ..., the mob on board the “Cambria,” already referred to, which was a sort of national announcement of my arrival in England. Secondly, the highly repreh... ...ates, told me he saw with his own eyes the following circumstances. In the national Dis- trict of Columbia, over which the star-spangled emblem is con... ...might call isolated cases. But I will refer you to the laws adopted by the legislatures of the slave states. I give you such evidence, because it cann... ...y party come into power, than a system of legislation was presented to the legislatures of the northern states, designed to put the states in harmony ...

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...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ... afternoon. Keep forgetting it.” At the Simplex Office Furniture Shop, the National Cash Register Agency, he yearned for a dictaphone, for a typewrite... ...t down my fool smoking.” He looked at his bank, the Min- ers’ and Drovers’ National, and considered how clever and solid he was to bank with so marble... ...clash of traffic when he was halted at the corner beneath the lofty Second National Tower. His car was banked with four others in a line of steel rest... ...worldly, and a little shabby. He was, particularly when he was influencing legislatures or hiring labor-spies, very easy and lovable and gorgeous. He ...

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...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ... ...“They own us, these task-masters of ours; they own our homes, they own our legislatures. We cannot escape from them. There is no redress. We are told ... ...otested a third speaker, “that ain’t the way to do—if he did do it—bribing legislatures. Why, we were bucking against corrupt politics. We couldn’t af...

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...nt indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let ... ...ead of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government. It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted... ...ormly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privi- leges, and protection. As a nation we have made pea... ... and being pursuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened th... ... one federal government, vested with sufficient powers for all general and national purposes. The more attentively I consider and investigate the reas... ...ests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures. The other point of difference is, the greater number of citi-... ...ance and a direct and active resistance. If the interposition of the State legislatures be necessary to give effect to a mea- sure of the Union, they ... ...f the national government should not require the intervention of the State legislatures, if they were to pass into immediate operation upon the citize... ... present Constitution, are liable to the infractions of thirteen different legislatures, and as many different courts of final jurisdiction, acting un...

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...e of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of priv... ...ombinations, partial conven tions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity. In this dangerous crisis the people of America were IN... ...cessary or expedient, and by their representatives in Congress and the State legislatures, according to the Constitution itself, adopt and ordain. Ret... ...nsideration more pleas ing than this can be presented to the human mind? If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, no... ...springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence. In the midst of these p... ...ent may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign na t... ...itation of his successors by both Houses of Congress and by the voice of the legislatures and the people throughout the nation. On this subject it mig... ...t and so solemnly sanctioned by both Houses of Congress and applauded by the legislatures of the States and the public opinion, until it shall be othe... ...ce which existed among the people and the enlightened character of the State legislatures not to have the fullest confidence that the two bodies elect...

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...es of the moment, which con trivances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and, by successive aggrega ... ...al basis for institutions, of their being in harmony 11 J S Mill with the national usages and character, and the like, means either this, or nothing ... ...o the other. Economy, for example, equally preserves the existing stock of national wealth, and favors the creation of more. A just distribution of bu... ... the citizen, promotes, not the preservation only, but the increase of the national wealth, and encourages a more active use of the individual faculti... ...tutions affects the welfare of the community—its operation as an agency of national edu cation, and its arrangements for conducting the collective af... ...riors in knowledge, do not even offer themselves for Congress or the State Legislatures, so certain is it that they would have no chance of being retu... ...New York. These members are not chosen by the population, but by the State Legislatures, themselves elected by the people of each state; but as the wh... ...alifications in one of the houses. Being nomi nated by select bodies, the Legislatures of the various states, whose choice, for reasons already indic...

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...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ...ti- 19 H. G . Wells cal life, especially State life as distinguished from national political life, is degraded because of the natural and inevi- tabl... ...e no rôle of almost indifferent abstinence from the broad processes of our national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above ... ...science (until private endowment intervened) was in the hands of the State Legislatures, and religion the con- cern of the voluntary congregations. On...

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...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...es. Such license would have been de- structive to the very idea of a great nationality. Where would New England have been, as a part of the United Sta... ...affairs, and especially when they handle them at stirring moments of great national changes. The name of Napo- leon III. stands fair now before Europe... ...ted from the Bay to the Gulf. It is impossible that we should allow of two nationalities within those limits.” “And do you think it possible,” I asked... ...for Maine. It is very generally the case that the States do not hold their legislatures and carry on their government at their chief towns. Augusta an... ...y that the laws in the different States may be as various as the different legislatures may choose to make them. In New Hampshire universal suffrage d... ...shington are all paid, and that the same is the case with reference to the legislatures of all the States. No member of the New York legislature can a... ...to the legislature or governments of the different States, for their State legislatures and governments are but puny powers; but in the legislature an...

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...pport the war by levying con- tributions on Mexico. At one time urging the national honor, the security of the future, the prevention of foreign inter... ...ng all its expenses, without a purpose or defi- nite object.” So then this national honor, security of the future, and everything but territorial inde... ... 34 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two he insists that the separate national existence of Mexico shall be maintained; but he does not tell us h... ...ed by the diffusion of knowledge and the due encouragement of a universal, national spirit of inquiry and discussion of public events through the medi... ...ds this language: “I have carefully read the resolutions of the Democratic national convention, laying down the platform of our po- litical faith, and... ...he halls of Congress, and it will, just as easily, drive us from the State Legislatures. Let us, then, grapple with it, and test its strength. Let us,... ...not be denied. Still it is no more difficult in Congress than in the State Legislatures, in the counties, or in the smallest municipal districts which... ...Lincoln: V ol Two pation as to amount almost to prohibition. In those days Legislatures held the unquestioned power to abolish sla- very in their resp... ... quite fashionable for State constitutions to withhold that power from the Legislatures. In those days, by common consent, the spread of the black man...

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...t may be said that it points the way to a new epoch in a large area of our national life. To work out the plan on paper, or at a distance—that is one ... ...on moral earnestness of the strong character of a man who has done a great national service. Walter H. Page. UP FROM SLAVERY Chapter I. A Slave Among ... ...e to keep themselves so accurately and completely informed about the great National questions that were agitating the country. From the time that Garr... ...he hand, head, and heart. I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or wr... ...e series of public meetings to which I have referred, the President of the National Educational Association, the Hon. Thomas W. Bicknell, was present ... ...e brotherly kindness. The address which I delivered at Madison, before the National Educational Association, gave me a rather wide introduction in the...

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...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ...and Lieutenant George G. Meade, afterwards the commander of the victorious National army at the battle of Gettysburg—made a reconnoissance to the Salt... ...ing of the troops asked for by the ad- ministration. A bill was before the National Legislature from early in the session of 1846-7, authorizing the c... ...ss of build- ings on the east side in which Congress has its sessions, the national courts are held, the public offices are all located, the President... ...ellion, it finally, in the judgment of Congress and of the majority of the legislatures of the States, became necessary to enfranchise the negro, in a...

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...honour, and obey a King, and that they rejoice in this conception of their national purpose. Great sums of money were spent to emphasize this purpose,... ... of the new knowledge has taken for its work, so also are the loyalties of nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for pa... ...odern patriotism for one moment. On the one hand there are the patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat... ...Memory of Mr. Gladstone and the inalienable right of Ireland to a separate national existence. One hears, too, of the sacred principle of Free T rade,... ...adi- tions, constitutions and pledges, with their party liabilities, their national superstitions, their rotting banners and their accumulating legacy... ...the American social body, of a disease of corruption that renders American legislatures feeble or powerless against the great business corporations, a...

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...F THE GEN- ERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ............................................................. ... increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, natural... ...ose who live by wages, therefore, naturally increases with the increase of national wealth, and cannot possibly increase without it. It is not the act... ...and cannot possibly increase without it. It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its con- tinual increase, which occasions a rise in th... ... as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other... ...the inclinations of their constituents. The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not co... ...in Great Britain. When this last bounty was granted, the British and Irish legislatures were not in much better humour with one an- other, than the Br...