Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People

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4. Part 4

Who are these "public servants," that need all this watching? Evidently they are the lawmakers, and the lawmakers only. They are not only the _chief_ "public servants," but they...

6. Part 6

We should, therefore, never have another crisis, panic, revulsion of credit, stagnation of industry, or fall of prices; for these are all caused by the lack of money, and the co...

10. Part 10

Here was a government that had never had any legitimate existence. It professedly rested all its authority on a certain paper called a constitution; a paper, I repeat, that nobo...

2. Part 2

These voters, having given their votes in secret (by secret ballot), have put it out of your power--and out of the power of all others associated with you in the government--to...

7. Part 7

2. These monopolists of money assume that pauper labor, so-called, is the cheapest labor in the world; and that therefore each nation, in order to compete with the pauper labor...

5. Part 5

In asserting its right of arbitrary dominion over that natural wealth that is indispensable to the support of human life, it asserts its right to withhold that wealth from those...

9. Part 9

There would be just as much reason in saying that the lawmakers have a right to make the entire marriage contract; to marry any man and woman against their will; dispose of all...

1. Part 1

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8. Part 8

It was argued by Webster, Wheaton, Wirt, Clay, Livingston, Ogden, Jones, Sampson, and Haines; nine in all. Their arguments were so voluminous that they could not be reported at...

3. Part 3

This "spirit of amity and mutual concession in the halls of legislation," you explain to mean this: a disposition, on the part of the lawmakers respectively--whose various schem...

13. Part 13

The first eight amendments specified particularly various prohibitions upon the power of congress; such, for example, as those securing to the people the free exercise of religi...

11. Part 11

Such was the "sovereignty" claimed and exercised by the governments of those, so-called, "civilized nations of Europe," that were in power in 1787, 1788, and 1789, when our cons...

12. Part 12

Would it not be within the legitimate powers of a State legislature to declare _prospectively_ that no one should be made responsible, upon contracts entered into before arrivin...

14. Part 14

The effect of this principle of personal responsibility, in all judicial and executive proceedings, would be--or at least ought to be--that no one would give any judicial opinio...