 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1860 - 700 pages
...the spirit of party generally. It is, unfortunately, inseparable from our nature, having its roots in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists...governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or oppressed, but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and it is truly their... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 pages
...founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn yon, in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects...generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from onr nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 pages
...geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most eolcmn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of...generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from onr nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1860 - 478 pages
...founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. The spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 566 pages
...for ancestry beyond that period,2 — and we may say, in the most literal sense, we 1 "Let me warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. ... In governments of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst... | |
 | Leon D. Epstein - Political parties - 1986 - 458 pages
...of "the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally" and of the inseparability of that spirit "from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind." Farewell Address of September 17, 1796, in Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...identified and warned against were nature run wild. For instance, he commented: "This spirit [of party], unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having...root in the strongest passions of the human mind." 64 The conditions for growth reflected Washington's beliefs about human nature. He said, for example:... | |
 | James Sundquist - Political Science - 2011 - 370 pages
...celebrated farewell address, President George Washington echoed these sentiments, warning his countrymen "in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally," which he called "the worst enemy" of democratic governments everywhere. 2 And Washington's successor,... | |
 | William W. Freehling - History - 1994 - 340 pages
...Washington's Farewell Address of 1796 exemplified this antiparty viewpoint. Washington warned his countrymen "in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party." Party agitation, he declared, "is seen in its greatest rank" in republican governments "and is truly... | |
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I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful... 
