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... federalists were upbraided with the charge of apathy and indifference to public concerns , for not coming to the attack , with more zeal and fury and de- votion to their prostrate leader " Anecdotes from memo- ry , " conjured up in the ...
... federalists were upbraided with the charge of apathy and indifference to public concerns , for not coming to the attack , with more zeal and fury and de- votion to their prostrate leader " Anecdotes from memo- ry , " conjured up in the ...
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... , you expressed some reproof of the inactivity of the Federal- ists . Their conduct at present , is not liable to such a censure ; perhaps it may deserve the 29 reproach of intemperate ardour . The zeal of party has 21.
... , you expressed some reproof of the inactivity of the Federal- ists . Their conduct at present , is not liable to such a censure ; perhaps it may deserve the 29 reproach of intemperate ardour . The zeal of party has 21.
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... federalists , as their candidate for the first in the magistra- cy of the nation . This number , the editors re- fused to publish , and my knuckles were rapped for having written it . The project of a coali- tion with the Clintonians ...
... federalists , as their candidate for the first in the magistra- cy of the nation . This number , the editors re- fused to publish , and my knuckles were rapped for having written it . The project of a coali- tion with the Clintonians ...
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... federalists , I think , might suffer my old lamp to go out , without administering their nau- seous oil merely to excite a momentary flash , before it expires . Do you think the federalists believe them- selves , when they say , that I ...
... federalists , I think , might suffer my old lamp to go out , without administering their nau- seous oil merely to excite a momentary flash , before it expires . Do you think the federalists believe them- selves , when they say , that I ...
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... Federalists , by their intolerance , have gone far towards justifying , or at least ex- cusing , Jefferson for his ; and for the future , it seems to be established as a principle , that our government is forever to be , not a national ...
... Federalists , by their intolerance , have gone far towards justifying , or at least ex- cusing , Jefferson for his ; and for the future , it seems to be established as a principle , that our government is forever to be , not a national ...
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Page 173 - ... determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 169 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 172 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 172 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 175 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Page 173 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 174 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Page 174 - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension; that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain; that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them; but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution...
Page 71 - Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States.
Page 167 - Reason first, you are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second, I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third, you can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "if you are decided, I will do as well as I can.