The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: PoliticsT. Nourse, 1885 |
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... interests of mankind . With the cant of religion and morality on their lips , its leaders are , almost to a man , infidels and blasphemers , as well as traitors and dis- organizers . They are men for whom it is not enough to sin from ...
... interests of mankind . With the cant of religion and morality on their lips , its leaders are , almost to a man , infidels and blasphemers , as well as traitors and dis- organizers . They are men for whom it is not enough to sin from ...
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... interests must prompt them to discountenance internal radicalism , and to exert at home a conservative influence . Without them there is no hope for us , but with them , with their hearty coöperation with the friends of the Union yet ...
... interests must prompt them to discountenance internal radicalism , and to exert at home a conservative influence . Without them there is no hope for us , but with them , with their hearty coöperation with the friends of the Union yet ...
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... interest in the slave population . We are men as well as they ; we are human , with human understandings and human hearts , as well as they ; and ' nothing human is more foreign to us than to them . We throw back upon them their charges ...
... interest in the slave population . We are men as well as they ; we are human , with human understandings and human hearts , as well as they ; and ' nothing human is more foreign to us than to them . We throw back upon them their charges ...
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... interest is stronger than any other one interest in the country , and is more than a match for all the others taken singly . It can combine a larger political minority in its favor than any other , though after all only a minority . To ...
... interest is stronger than any other one interest in the country , and is more than a match for all the others taken singly . It can combine a larger political minority in its favor than any other , though after all only a minority . To ...
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... interest , because that interest gives her a power in the Union to which she is not entitled by her numbers , and the North opposes slavery , not because of its alleged sinfulness , but because it would prevent it from becoming predomi ...
... interest , because that interest gives her a power in the Union to which she is not entitled by her numbers , and the North opposes slavery , not because of its alleged sinfulness , but because it would prevent it from becoming predomi ...
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Página 83 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Página 186 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 446 - Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Página 516 - And still further, that this Proclamation is intended to present the people of the States wherein the national authority has been suspended, and loyal State governments have been subverted, a mode in and by which the national authority and loyal State governments may be re-established within said States or in any of them, and while the mode presented is the best the Executive can suggest with his present impressions, it must not be understood that no other possible mode would be acceptable.
Página 516 - To avoid misunderstanding, it may be proper to say that this proclamation, so far as it relates to state governments, has no reference to states wherein loyal state governments have all the while been maintained. And, for the same reason, it may be proper to further say, that whether members sent to congress from any state shall be admitted to seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective houses, and not to any extent with the Executive.
Página 515 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one tenth in number of the votes cast in such state at the presidential election...
Página 9 - Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation.
Página 19 - And turning he rebuked them, saying : You know not of what spirit you are. The Son of Man came not to destroy souls but to save.
Página 186 - Who, sternly marking on his native soil, The blood, the tears, the anguish, and the toil, Shall bid each righteous heart exult, to see Peace to the slave, and vengeance on the free ! Yet, yet, degraded men ! th...
Página 371 - ... such measures of justice, moderation, and forbearance as will disarm reasoning opposition, will be sufficient to secure the public safety until returning reflection, concurring with the fearful experience of social evils, the inevitable fruits of faction, shall bring the recusant members cheerfully back into the family, which, after all, must prove their best and happiest, as it undeniably is their most natural home.