The Future of the Republic, Its Dangers and Its Hopes: An Address, Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Hudson College, July 2nd, 1873G. F. Nesbitt & Company, 1880 - 16 páginas |
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Adams Austerlitz axiom become Cæsar centralizing force century Chapters of Erie charters Chief Justice Marshall cities and towns civilization class of corporations combination Commercial Feudalism companies conflict between capital conquered consent Court DANGERS OF UNIVERSAL Dartmouth College declares discussion dition elements of destruction empire England faith fatal Feudal System fortunes grander Growth is better highways historic sea hundred Huns and Vandals immortality industrial interest ization law writers Legislature levy liberty live locomotive Macaulay mankind Manual for 1873 Massachusetts middle ages miles millions modern nations monopolies municipal name of private Napoleon operating opinion organization perish permanent classes Peter Martyr picture of Peter political poration predicted private citizen private corporation prosperity RAILWAY PROBLEM recent regulate Republic will continue roads Roman empire safeguard small number society spoliation strength territory thousand tion to-day United universal suffrage UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN vast vested rights wholly
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Página 5 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Página 16 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Página 5 - But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams, and in those Manchesters and Birminghams hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.
Página 5 - Legislature will be chosen? On one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith. On the other is a demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalists and usurers, and asking why anybody should be permitted to drink champagne and to ride in a carriage while thousands of honest folks are in want of .necessaries.
Página 4 - What happened lately in France is an example. In 1848 a pure democracy was established there. During a short- time there was reason to expect a general spoliation, a national bankruptcy, a new partition of the soil, a maximum of prices, a ruinous load of taxation laid on the rich for the purpose of supporting the poor in idleness.
Página 5 - I have seen England pass three or four times through such critical seasons as I have described. Through such seasons the United States will have to pass in the course of the next century, if not of this.
Página 4 - ... to the majority of citizens told by the head ; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
Página 4 - Your fate I believe to be settled, though it is deferred by a physical cause. As long as you have a boundless extent of fertile and unoccupied land, your laboring population will be far more at ease than the laboring population of the old world, and, while that is the case, the...
Página 2 - Old decays but foster new creations ; Bones and ashes feed the golden corn ; Fresh elixirs wander every moment, Down the veins through which the live past feeds its child, the live unborn.
Página 5 - The English theory of national stability is, that there must be a permanent class who shall hold in their own hands so much of the wealth, the privilege, and the political power of the kingdom, that they can compel the admiration and obedience of all other classes. . . . Where such permanent classes exist, the conflict of which Macaulay speaks is inevitable.