Category: History - American
“_The habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour, and idleness. Of these, the first only is meritorious, and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the fi...
“_When the public deliberates concerning any regulation of commerce or police, the proprietors of land never can mislead it, with a view to promote the interest of their own par...
8. Part 8These young men are by no means effete dilletanti. They are strong, vigorous young men, and they plunge into what they know to be a competitive field with a full knowledge that...
4. Part 4It is, I know, a hopeless and a thankless task for any man to raise his voice in an appeal for peace. The forces which have been set in motion in the making of America so far mu...
1. Part 1“_The habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour, and idleness. Of these, the first only is meritorious, and to it all the products...
6. Part 6It is a call for a leader to freedom--the freedom we bought with our blood and signed away in ignorance. I care not where you turn, the voices of the people crying for their rig...
3. Part 3A people spread through the whole tract of country on this side of the Mississippi, and secured by Canada in our hands, would probably for some centuries find employment in agri...
5. Part 5Strange, it seems to me, it is that still within the gates of gold there dwells a great host of people barely roused. For I have failed of my aim if I have given the impression...
2. Part 2A bored individual with a fondness for gems covered as much of his person as possible with diamonds. When he walked abroad, he flashed and sparkled in the sunlight. He, also, be...
9. Part 9For I do not believe that the march of progress in this land is to be turned backward. I cannot believe that the nation as a nation is to sink into the depths as England sank in...