The party system. Public opinion. Illustrations and reflexions. Social institutionsMacmillan, 1900 - United States |
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Abolitionism Ameri American ballot become Boss called candidates CHAPTER character church citizens civil coloured committee Congress Constitution convention course delegates democracy democratic Democratic party districts election England English equality Europe European exist favour Federal feeling force France German give habit immigrants influence interest Italy labour leaders legislation legislature less majority mass Massachusetts ment mind moral nation native native Americans nature negroes newspapers nominating North organization party perhaps persons places political politicians popular population practical present President presidential profes profession public opinion questions race railroad railway reform religious Republican Republican party respect Ring Scotland seems sense sentiment slavery social social equality sometimes South South Carolina Southern Spoils System suffrage Tammany Tammany Hall tendency things tion United universities vote voters wealth West Western whites whole women York York City
Popular passages
Page 24 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear. The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 757 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 255 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Page 362 - Israel to rouse the people out of their self-complacency, to refresh their moral ideals, to remind them that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment, and that to whom much is given of them shall much also be required.
Page 335 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 702 - So far from thinking their commonwealth godless, the Americans conceive that the religious character of a government consists in nothing but the religious belief of the individual citizens, and the conformity of their conduct to that belief.
Page 749 - It may seem a paradox to observe that a millionaire has a better and easier social career open to him in England than in America. ... In America, if his private character be bad, if he be mean or openly immoral, or personally vulgar, or dishonest, the best society may keep its doors closed against him.
Page 21 - Neither party has anything definite to say on these issues; neither party has any principles, any distinctive tenets. Both have traditions. Both claim to have tendencies. Both have certainly war cries, organizations, interests, enlisted in their support. But those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the government. Tenets and policies, points of political doctrine and points of political practice, have all but vanished.
Page 664 - So early as 1619, twelve years after the first settlement at Jamestown, the Virginia Company in England voted ten thousand acres of land in the colony for the establishment of a seminary of learning, and a site was in 1624 actually set apart, on an island in the Susquehanna River, for the " Foundinge and Maintenance of a University and such schools in Virginia as shall there be erected, and shall be called Academia Virginiensis et Oxoniensis.
Page 21 - ... country as seriously involving its welfare? This is what a European is always asking of intelligent Republicans and intelligent Democrats. He is always asking because he never gets an answer. The replies leave him in deeper perplexity.