Democracy in the United States: What it Has Done, what it is Doing, and what it Will Do

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D. Appleton, 1868 - 414 páginas
 

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Jeffersons Political Principles
18
Jeffersons First Term as President
23
Jeffersons Acquisition of Louisiana
24
Pirates and the Freedom of the Sea
26
New England Clergymen preaching AntiDemocratic Principles
27
Secession proposed by the AntiDemocrats of New England
29
One of Natures Noblemen
34
Proposition to impeach Mr Jefferson
36
Why the Embargo was abandoned
38
Free Trade and Sailors Rights
41
James Madison and his Political Principles
45
The Declaration of War
47
The AntiDemocrats endeavored to prevent Loans and Enlistments
50
The Navy and Naval Heroes
51
William Bainbridge
53
Charles Stewart
54
Stephen Decatur
55
Isaac Hull
56
Oliver Hazard Perry
57
John Rodgers
58
Thomas MacDonough
59
James Lawrence
60
David Porter
61
The Army and its Officers
63
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
64
Alexander Macomb
65
Jacob Brown
66
Andrew Jackson
67
Eleazar W Ripley
69
William J Worth
70
The Principles and Intentions of the AntiDemocratic Party during the War of 1812
71
Daniel D Tompkins
75
Burning BlueLights
79
Disunion proposed by the Federalists
80
The Hartford Convention of 1814
85
John Holmess Description of the Hartford Convention and its Authors
92
Mr Madisons Second Term
94
The Invasion Sacking and Burning of Washington
95
The Battle of New Orleans
97
The Bank Bills of 1815 and 1816
100
James Monroe and his Election to the Presidency
102
The Era of Good Feeling
104
The Monroe Doctrine
107
Banks and Banking in New York
108
The Acquisition of Florida
110
Remarks on Mr Monroes Administration
111
The New York State Constitutions of 1821 and 1846
112
Congressional FishingCommittees
113
The New York Electoral Law of 1824
116
Administration of John Quincy Adams
118
The Freedmens Bureau
119
Equality the only Honest Basis of Legislation
121
Terrible Distress of the Country
149
The Protective System
152
The Revival of a Gold Currency
156
Distribution of the Public Revenue
159
The Specie Circular
163
Thomas H Benton
166
Distribution of the Public Lands and Land Sales
169
Disunion in its Early Stages
171
Washingtons Farewell Address
173
Silas Wright
176
Jacksons Farewell Address
183
Martin Van Buren
188
The SubTreasury
195
The Presidential Election of 1840
199
Tariff Duties on Foreign Importations
202
John A Dix
207
Internal Revenue Taxes
212
The Force of Bad Precedents in Legislation
215
Heman J Redfield
218
Congress responsible for the Extravagance of the National Govern ment
221
Administration of John Tyler
228
James K Polk his Election and Political Principles
231
Mr Polks Administration
233
Zachary Taylor and his Administration
235
Millard Fillmore and his Administration
237
John Brown at Harpers Ferry
240
Azariah C Flagg
242
Franklin Pierce and his Administration
246
James Buchanan
248
Mr Buchanans Administration
251
The Tyranny of Majorities in Congress
257
Abraham Lincoln
259
Mr Lincoln on his Way to Washington
261
Mr Lincolns Inaugural Address and its Consequences
264
Firing the First Gun
266
The Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
270
Spies and SecretService Agents
273
The Trial of Civilians by Military Commissions
276
The Early Avowed Objects of the War
279
Later Avowed Objects of the War
282
Mr Chases Financial Plans and their Consequences
283
Mr Chases Banking System
288
Why the War lasted so long
291
The Secession States were never in Law out of the Union
327
Andrew Johnson
333
Congress and the Supreme Court
344
What our Country was is and may
353
Negro WarServices and Negro Loyalty
360
Slander as Political Capital
366
Are not all the States in Danger?
372
Expenses of the National Government
384
Appendix Constitution of the United States
400

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Página 407 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Página 174 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 406 - Crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. SECTION 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies...
Página 175 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations — northern and southern — Atlantic and western ; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Página 21 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 173 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Página 108 - It is impossible that the Allied Powers should extend their political system to any portion of either Continent without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can anyone believe that our Southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
Página 401 - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.
Página 264 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the public speeches of him who now addresses you.
Página 260 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...

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