Citizenship Sovereignty
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150654909
Paperback|9781150654909
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...ourselves of the present rule of Massachusetts and Connecticut, we by scission. break the Union, will the evil stop there? Suppose the New England States alone cut off, will our nature be changed? Are we not men still to the South of that, and with h 119 all the passions of men? Immediately we shall see a Pennsylvania and a Virginia the present 3- party arise in the residuary confederacy, and the public mind will be distracted with eessiom the same party spirit. What a game too will the one party have in their hands, by New differeternally threatening the other, that unless they do so and So, they will join their neesnorthern neighbors. If we reduce our union to Virginia and North Carolina, imme-canthrcaten diately the conflict will be established between the representatives of those two States, 1" their and they will end by breaking into their simple units. Seeing, therefore, that an association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thine which never yet p, scer being.. inseparable existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town-meeting or a vestry; from r seeing that we must have somebody to quarrel with, I had rather keep our New _Ule south England associates for that purpose, than to see our bickerings transferred to others, had best keep They are circumscribed within such narrow limits, and their population so full, that marre? their numbers will ever be the minority, and they are marked, like the Jews, with such with. a perversity of character, as to constitute, from that circumstance, the natural division of our parties. A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, nTMP their spells dissolved, and the people recovering their true sight, restoring their Gov-the People. eminent to its t...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150654909 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150654902 |
| Weight | 0.93 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $22.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 284 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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