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Page 104
... workingmen and with the pressure of the new economic forces , a movement began in Philadelphia to improve their condition which resulted in the formation of the Mechanics ' Union of Trade Associations . This led to a strike for ten ...
... workingmen and with the pressure of the new economic forces , a movement began in Philadelphia to improve their condition which resulted in the formation of the Mechanics ' Union of Trade Associations . This led to a strike for ten ...
Page 105
... workingmen and urging them to political action in which it was said , " It is true in this favoured nation we enjoy the inestimable blessing of ' universal suffrage , ' and constituting , as we everywhere do , a very great majority , we ...
... workingmen and urging them to political action in which it was said , " It is true in this favoured nation we enjoy the inestimable blessing of ' universal suffrage , ' and constituting , as we everywhere do , a very great majority , we ...
Page 106
... workingmen to take political action and the Working Man's Advocate appealed to them to act in the spirit of the Revolution . " Your fathers of the Revolution , " it said , " secured for you a form of government which guarantees to you ...
... workingmen to take political action and the Working Man's Advocate appealed to them to act in the spirit of the Revolution . " Your fathers of the Revolution , " it said , " secured for you a form of government which guarantees to you ...
Page 107
... workingmen's proposals . At the beginning of this agitation among the working classes , the election of 1828 occurred and the workingmen in both Phila- delphia and New York threw the weight of their votes on the side of Jackson and they ...
... workingmen's proposals . At the beginning of this agitation among the working classes , the election of 1828 occurred and the workingmen in both Phila- delphia and New York threw the weight of their votes on the side of Jackson and they ...
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... workingmen met with a hearty response . By 1832 , the workmen's movement was a spent force and it had amalgamated with the Democratic party which had absorbed its members and 10 Newton , " The Statesmanship of Andrew Jackson , ” pp ...
... workingmen met with a hearty response . By 1832 , the workmen's movement was a spent force and it had amalgamated with the Democratic party which had absorbed its members and 10 Newton , " The Statesmanship of Andrew Jackson , ” pp ...
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Page 125 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 81 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 132 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 18 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Page 127 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 82 - Still one thing more, fellowcitizens — 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.
Page 30 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Page 132 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 16 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Page 81 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.