Campaign of '84: Biographies of James G. Blaine, the Republican Candidate for President, and John A. Logan, the Republican Candidate for Vice-president. With a Description of the Leading Issued and the Proceedings of the National Convention. Together with a History of the Political Parties of the United States: Comparisons of Platforms on All Inportant Questions, and Political Tables for Ready Reference

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141 psl. - of the United States to be affixed. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. Done at the city of Washington this first day of January, in the year
82 psl. - Second. Opposition to centralization, and to that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism ; no sumptuary laws ; separation of the church and state for the good of each ; common schools fostered and protected.
119 psl. - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but
29 psl. - not trace :ill their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition,
118 psl. - never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. »*»»*» " It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the
119 psl. - face to face ; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before 1 Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends
30 psl. - to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it," therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should
52 psl. - own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power» on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless invasion, by armed force, of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
27 psl. - Southern—Atlantic and Western : whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interest» and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and
4 psl. - a report which urged the appointment of commissioners by all the states, "to devise such other provisions as shall, to them seem necessary to render the condition of the Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as,

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