An Address Delivered in the Tabernacle: Before the Tippecanoe and Other Harrison Associations, of the City of New York : at the Celebration of the Anniversary of the Birth Day of Washington : and the Recent Triumph of Sound Principles in the Election of William Henry Harrison, to the Presidency of the U.S., Feb'y 22, 1841Pub. for the Associations, 1841 - 44 Seiten |
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23 FEBRUARY acclamations ADDRESS DELIVERED Address was hastily battle beautiful Ohio BENJAMIN DRAKE Birth-day of Washington BROADWAY TABERNACLE Cæsar Chairman Democratic Gen Chairman Young Men's citizens combination contest corrupt DANIEL ULLMANN despotism destiny ELECTION OF WILLIAM evils existence Father FEBRUARY 25 freedom freemen glorious Gracchi HARRISON ASSOCIATIONS hearing the Oration hour of victory HUGH MAXWELL immobility individual opinion intelligence justice and truth late Anniversary mankind mass midst of severe millions minds moral multitudes nation Obd't Servant offices organization P. W. ENGS Palfrey PATRIOT poetical justice precepts principle of progress private judgment RAYMOND RECENT TRIUMPH religious revolution Rome sacred Sambridge SAMUEL L sect severe profes sional engagements SIR,-Believing society solemn solicit a copy spirit strife sublime TABERNACLE thousand tion tion cluster TRIUMPH OF SOUND tyranny U. S. FEB'Y vidual violence of faction voice whole WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON wisdom YORK Young Men's Demo
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Seite 9 - ... revelled in the bright visions of his Utopia. The immortal Milton had uttered his sublime views on freedom, and the great Locke had published his profound speculations on the true principles of government. But never, until the establishment of American independence, was it, except in very imperfect modes, acknowledged by a nation and made the corner-stone and foundation of its goverment that the sovereign power is vested in the mass.
Seite 9 - Philosophers, in their dreams, had built ideal governments, Plato had luxuriated in the happiness of his fanciful republic. Sir Thomas More had revelled in the bright visions of his Utopia. The immortal Milton had uttered his sublime views on freedom, and the great Locke had published his profound speculations on the true principles of government. But never, until the establishment of American independence, was it, except in very imperfect...
Seite 9 - ... Constitution. It will not be expected that I should attempt a detailed' analysis of the Constitution in this address. A general characterization will be sufficient. The great, distinguishing characteristic of our nationality, proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and established in the Constitution, was that all legitimate power resides in, and is derived from, the people. This sublime truth, to us so self-evident, so simple, so obvious, was before that time measurably undeveloped in...
Seite 9 - ... of De Tocqueville. Your most difficult problem will be not to build institutions, but to make men ; not to form the body, but to find the spiritual embers which shall kindle within that body a living souL— (1873.) Uhlman, D. ( American, Contemporaneous.) The Sovereignty of Individual Manhood — The great truth which was promulgated by the Declaration of Independence, and established by the War of the Revolution, and made the distinguishing characteristic of our nationality, was that all legitimate...
Seite 9 - ... of Independence, and established by the War of the Revolution, and made the distinguishing characteristic of our nationality, was that all legitimate power resides in, and is derived from, the people. This sublime truth, to us so self-evident, so simple, so obvious, was before that time measurably undeveloped in the history of the world. Philosophers, in their dreams, had built ideal governments ; Plato had luxuriated in the happiness of his fanciful republic; Sir Thomas More had reveled in the...
Seite 4 - Men love not this : yet heaven-enforced maintain The strife abhorr'd, but still abhorr'd in vain. The other elder rose from darksome night : The God high-throned, who dwells in ether's light, Fix'd deep in earth, and centred midst mankind This better strife, which fires the slothful mind. The needy idler sees the rich, and hastes Himself to guide the plough, and plant the wastes : Ordering his household : thus the neighbour's eyes Mark emulous the wealthy neighbour rise : Beneficent this strife's...
Seite 4 - The wise will this condemn and that approve: Accursed, the one spreads misery from afar, And stirs up discord and pernicious war; Men lore not this ; yet heaven-enforced maintain The strife abhorr'd, but still abhorr'd in vain.