 | Jabez Delano Hammond - 1842 - 590 էջ
...commercial laborers without property. Could these kingdoms sustain the weight of universal suffrage "? The radicals in England, with the force of that mighty...that island like a deluge. "The growth of the city of New-York is enough to startle and awaken those who are pursuing the ignis fatuus of universal suffrage.... | |
 | Jabez Delano Hammond - 1850 - 590 էջ
...commercial laborers without property. Could these kingdoms sustain the weight of universal suffrage 1 The radicals in England, with the force of that mighty...that island like a deluge. "The growth of the city of New-York is enough to startle and awaken those who are pursuing the ignis fatum of universal suffrage.... | |
 | Edward Morse Shepard - 1888 - 416 էջ
...that England and France could not sustain the weight of universal suffrage ; that " the radicals of England, with the force of that mighty engine, would...at once sweep away the property, the laws, and the liberty of that island like a deluge." Van Buren distinguished himself in the debate. Upon this exciting... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1889 - 260 էջ
...tendency of universal suffrage is to jeopard the rights of property and the principles of liberty. . . . The growth of the city of New York is enough to startle and awaken those who are pursuing the ignis fatuus of universal suffrage. . . . We are destined to become a great manufacturing as well as commercial... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1912 - 620 էջ
...thou shalt not steal; are divine injunctions induced by this miserable depravity of our nature. . . . The growth of the city of New- York is enough to startle and awaken those who are pursuing the ignis fatuus of universal suffrage. . . . It is rapidly swelling into the unwieldly population, and with... | |
 | Kirk Harold Porter - 1918 - 280 էջ
...dreadful picture: "The Radicals of England, with the force of that mighty engine [universal suffrage], would at once sweep away the property, the laws, and the liberties of that island like a deluge." He heaped scathing contempt upon the proposed alternatives. Serving a day upon the road or an idle... | |
 | 1922 - 576 էջ
...$250 freehold for all voters for State Senators, as proposed by Ambrose Spencer, in which he said: "The growth of the city of New York is enough to startle and awaken those who are pursuing the ignis fatutis of universal suffrage. In 1773 it had 21,000 souls; in 1801 it had 60,000; in 1806 it had 76,000;... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - 1923 - 754 էջ
...tendency of universal suffrage is to jeopard the rights of property and the principles of liberty. . -. . The growth of the city of New York is enough to startle and awaken those who are pursuing the ignis fatuus of universal suffrage. . . . We are destined to become a great manufacturing as well as commercial... | |
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England upwards of five millions of manufacturing and commercial labourers without property. Could these kingdoms sustain the weight of universal suffrage? The radicals in England, with the force of that mighty engine, would at once sweep away the property,... 
