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...th the present United States. The thing has been ably advocated already in South America. Whatever appearances of separate sovereignties are kept up a... ...damen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politicians, the nationalists and suspicious people, since it gives them ye... ...r getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the main war. They have no ... ...tically to rule Great Britain, and who are powerful and influential in all democratic countries. In order to secure a certain independence and integri... ...e the traffic across. Beyond that point one is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run... ...o be discussed. So far we have said scarcely a word about the prospects of party politics and the problems of government that arise as the State cease... ...“go as you please,” or fail. And we find the affairs of nearly every great democratic State in the hands of a class of men not specially adapted to an... ...? pensable. It is not in the clash and manoeuvres and mutual correction of party, but in the essential conflict of political authority on the one hand... ...tlement of America and Siberia, for example, the Arabic sweep across North Africa, the invasion of Britain by the Low German peoples—when it has chang...

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...ome alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts,... ...of that machinery are: Firstly, That no negro slave, imported as such from Africa, and no descendant of such slave, can ever be a citizen of any State... ...inks Douglas’s superior talent will be needed to resist the revival of the African slave trade. Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is... ...o are trying 13 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three to divide the Democratic party for the purpose of electing a Republican Senator in my pla... ...g 13 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three to divide the Democratic party for the purpose of electing a Republican Senator in my place are just... ...what may be a right definition of the term alliance. If for the Republican party to see the other great party to which they are opposed divided among ... ...as brought forward at a time when nobody asked him; it was tendered to the South when the South had not asked for it, but when they could not well ref... ...ng—I take it upon myself to defy any man to show a printed resolution of a Democratic meeting, large or small— in favor of Judge Trumbull, or any of t... ... for the Senate. Senator Douglas is of world- wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, hav...

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...oughout his entire life, and especially after he rose to leadership in his party, Lincoln was stirred to his depths by the sense of fealty to a lofty ... ... American statesman since Washington, the statesman who in this absolutely democratic republic succeeded best, was the very man who actually combined ... ...of a few barren acres in a dreary neighborhood; his father a typical “poor Southern white,” shiftless and with- out ambition for himself or his childr... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One won him the election in the strongly Democratic district. Then for the first time, perhaps, he thought seriously... ...ple, broke forth in an utterance louder than ever. The bonds of accustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt... ...n: V ol One Territories to the ingress of slavery, Douglas had pleased the South, but greatly alarmed the North. He had sought to conciliate Northern ... ...g judgment and his conscientious statement of the truth, but the practical politicians were also right in their predic- tion of the immediate effect. ... ...Pilgrim Fathers upon Plymouth Rock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period th... ...e ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in t...

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...a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance ... ...treets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North... ... America V ol. 2 facts, was not the case. I had gone down the river with a party of ladies, and we were opposite to Mount Vernon; but on that occasion... ...re all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trollope ern party. Through the lines, into Virginia, they could not go at all. Up to Wa... ... indeed there was such a shout of triumph that no ministry in a country so democratic could have ventured to go at once against it, and to do so witho... ... to their work with the exercise of all their energies. They organized the Democratic party so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders amo... ... so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders among the Northern politicians. They never begrudged to these assistants a full share of the g... ...all the circumstances of their life, than their still untamed kins- men in Africa, must also be acknowledged. Who, then, can dare to wish that all tha... ...importations, and it was calculated that the race, when not recruited from Africa, would die out. That this calculation was wrong we now know, and the...

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...en of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Bu... ...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ion of Judge Douglas, and such were the opinions of the leading men of the Democratic Party. Even as late as the spring of 1856 Mr. Buchanan said, a s... ...e Douglas, and such were the opinions of the leading men of the Democratic Party. Even as late as the spring of 1856 Mr. Buchanan said, a short time s... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...e a concise statement of the dif- ference, as I understand it, between the Democratic and Re- publican parties, on the leading issues of the campaign.... ...the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buy... ... from importing slaves 35 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five from Africa. As to Governor Chase, I have a kind side for him. He was one of the... ...appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is ...

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...tial to my issue. He is dead and gone, all his immediate correla- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one h... ...vorce. I climbed high and fast from small beginnings. I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze t... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ... under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarchists, Justice and Social Democratic Federation (as it was then) presented so- cialism to our minds. ... ...ving been born and brought up in Bromstead and Penge, and the war in South Africa being yet in the womb of time, could quite honestly entertain the no... ...urning resentfully upon him for a common ignorance and assumption… . South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories. How... ... as much as anything in life could have shocked him. Socialism as a simple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Indivi... ... from the North Country or the Potteries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a...

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...n upon the Carso I contrived to lose during the temporary confusion of our party by the arrival and explosion of another prospective souvenir in our c... ... Alexander Severus, and later Aquileia brought Attila near to despair. Our party alighted; we inspected a 24 War and the Future very old mosaic floor... ...pid storm of the mountains to the north-west of it and of the Carso to the south-east, that they made no fight in the town itself. As a consequence wh... ...ess planet. Still more desolate was the scene upon the Carso to the right (south) of Goritzia. Both San Martino and Doberdo are destroyed beyond the l... ...tion between France and Italy, and consider- able mutual elbowing in North Africa. Both Frenchmen and Italians are resolute to remedy this now, but th... ...was, I suppose, a native officer of some cav- alry force from French north Africa. He was a handsome dark brown Arab, wearing a long yellow-white robe... ...rful and generous soldiers in the whole world, without insisting upon that democratic respect which the Frenchman exacts. They do not criticise and th... ...” He reflected, and some disagreeable memory darkened his face. “Under the politicians?” he said. I took the train of thought N had set going abroad w...

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...lieved that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the ... ...ollowing, to wit: (General Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of ... ...r for our military commanders to employ, as laborers, as many per- sons of African descent as can be used to advantage. The twelfth and thirteenth sec... ... shall employ as labor- ers within and from said States so many persons of African descent as can be advantageously used for military or naval purpose... ...s the root of the rebellion, or at least its sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated them to act, but they would have been impot... ... nec- essary to ascertain the amount of indemnification due to the injured party. The United States consul-general at Havana was consequently instruct... ...as directed, in view of the occupation of the capital by the revolutionary party and of the uncertainty of the civil war, not to present his credentia... ...nredeemed promise of more than half a year’s standing. A. LINCOLN. FURTHER DEMOCRATIC PARTY CRITICISM TO M. BIRCHARD AND OTHERS. W ASHINGTON, D. C., J... ...M. BIRCHARD, DA VID A. HOUK, et al: GENTLEMEN:—The resolutions of the Ohio Democratic State convention, which you present me, together with your intro...

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... labora- tory of his flat with farm hunting up and down the lines that run southward out of London, and his peering spectacles, his simple baldness, a... ...ion. Most of the other reports were of mere passings or descents. A picnic party was dispersed at Aldington Knoll and all its sweets and jam consumed,... ...ead…. VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII When the unfortunate Skinner got out of the South-Eastern train at Urshot that evening it was already nearly dusk. The ... ...an, Sir,” said a porter, “anyhow. ‘Im and 48 The Food of the Gods all ‘is party travelled first class.” “Well, we got him and his stuff off pretty sh... ... The sort of thing that pleased the public mind was caricatures of eminent politicians after a course of Boom-feeding, uses of the idea on hoardings, ... ...long the road outside the railings as “Dadda!” and “Babba!” in a sociable, democratic way. “There goes that there great Boomfood baby,” the bus- drive... ...eavens more than anything else in the world, but among a people at once so democratic and so vehemently loyal as the English her freedom was much rest... ...he Food were to be given a great reserva- tion—in North America perhaps or Africa—in which they might live out their lives in their own fashion. “But ...

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... we have perished at the stake or faced the levelled muskets of the firing party—“No, do not bandage my eyes”—because we would not betray the secret p... ...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ... before she was twenty to marry Benham, whom she had idealized at a tennis party. He had talked of his work and she had seen it in a flash, the nobles... ...ssions that all ultimately re- solved themselves into an antagonism of the democratic and the aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the... ...e aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the exponent of the democratic idea. The next day he came down early, his talk with Benham stil... ...liberties, so now the world. Things as they are may be fun for lawyers and politicians and court people and—douaniers; they may suit the loan-mongers ... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat...

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...ors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing... ...nise the prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (... ...he prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (in the... ...toler- ance, a trifle derisive, of the populace again—socialist ora- tors, politicians, a band, and the same wild uproar of dogs, frantic with the gla... ...patience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems that had sprung out of their absurd electoral arrangements, l... ...very complete. In theory—and he abounded in theory—his manners were purely democratic. It was by sheer habit and inadvertency that he permitted Firmin... ...of flaming destruction, statesmen whose countries had become chaos, scared politicians and financial potentates. Here were leaders of thought and lear... ...ge produce. They are bodies small enough as a rule to be run on a strictly democratic basis, and large enough to supply all the labour, except for a c...

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...igned supreme, she now opened her salon to the notabilities of the liberal party in Arcis. A woman accustomed to the advan- tages of salon royalty doe... ...ng to the famous seventeen who were called “Great Citizens” by the liberal party,—namely, Francois Keller, of the house of Keller Bros., the son-in-la... ...e ministry to promote the candidacy of a young and dashing officer then in Africa, attached to the staff of the prince-royal. “I think,” he said to hi... ...e family are now at Gondreville. Abd-el-Kader has resumed the offensive in Africa; the war is being vigorously carried on. This poor young man was amo... ...d sphere only,—inciting a people to rebel, tracking the secrets of austere politicians, and triumphing nowhere but in boudoirs and on the back- stairs... ...us conservatives, whereas Monsieur Dorlange inclines in a marked degree to democratic principles. This unexpected superiority in my problematical foll... ...e child told the truth. She only said, with her blunt simplicity, what our democratic customs still allow us to put in practice, though they forbid us... ... not to die in a common way. I myself have always had the idea of going to South America, where, not far from Paraguay, there is one of the greatest c...

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... the people, he was disappointed, and lost the place, being opposed by the party of Sylla, which seems to have been the principal cause of his subsequ... ...ttempted to recall the lost in- terest of Marius, Sertorius joined Cinna’s party, more par- ticularly as he saw that Octavius was not very capable, an... ...cient to give him battle again, and Marius, also, now coming by sea out of Africa, proffered himself to serve under Cinna, as a private soldier under ... ...d men into New Carthage, where he took shipping, and crossed the seas into Africa. And coming near the coast of Mauritania, his men went on shore to w... ...terly lose their force before they reach the islands. The soft western and southerly winds which breathe upon them sometimes produce gentle sprinkling... ...ephaestion. Afterwards, when Nearchus, with a fleet, was to be sent to the Southern Sea, Alexander bor- rowed money of his friends, his own treasury b... ...e philosopher reports, that Polyeuctus, the Sphettian, one of the Athenian politicians about that time, was wont to say that Demosthenes was the great... ...im, and restore the commonwealth to the Syracusans; not that he approved a democratic government, but thought it altogether preferable to a tyranny, w... ...e that constitution he intended; for he designed to suppress the unlimited democratic government, which in- deed is not a government, but, as Plato ca...

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... his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., its overmasteri... ...s, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I maintain, a most selfish and un- patriotic party. He was go... ...tributed. Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799, with a party of English stu- dents from Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom;... ...eatedly re- turned to England, and met my mother at watering-places on the south coast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one ... ...t often the most aristocratic, yet also, for many noble purposes, the most democratic of lands. 2 Five years ago, during the carnival of universal an... ...lf. At the opening of the tale, a magician living in the central depths of Africa is introduced to us as one made aware by his secret art of an enchan... ...mountains for the winter. Rigor, therefore, there was; for the most humane politicians, erroneously, as one must believe, fancied it necessary for the... ... an unfortunate reserve of manner. Whilst, on the contrary, Mr. Fox, ultra democratic in his principles and frank in his address, was repulsively aris...

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...2) were in themselves, for dramatic effect, the most impressive on record. Southey pronounced their preeminence when he said to me that they ranked am... ... of Christendom as to the impossibility of ever suppressing the antagonist party by mere force of arms. I am not meaning, however, to utter any opinio... .... But the Dream knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pur... ...ot uniform; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whate... ...rdly wretch, unless when sublimed into courage by famine; but, in southern Africa, he is the most currish of enemies. Those who fancied so much advent... ... all things despised dreaming fainéans (such, for instance, as we find the politicians, or even the conspirators, of Italy, Spain, and Germany, whose ... ...e, the tribunitian office, namely, that it was a popular mode of leav- ing democratic organs untouched, whilst he neutralized their democratic functio... ... of Cyrene, so memorable as the first ground of Greek intercourse with the African shore of the Mediterranean, never consulted the Delphic Oracle in r...

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...the town. And here, they say, Alycus, the son of Sciron, was slain, of the party of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), from whom a place in Megara, whe... ...nd confederacy with him. Fidenae he took, a neighboring city to Rome, by a party of horse, as some say, whom he sent before with commands to cut down ... ...ncertainty to be thought strange, seeing the manner of the death of Scipio Africanus, who died at his own home after supper, has been found capable ne... ...e. Some Greek writers also record this. But as for his voyages into Spain, Africa, and the Indies, and his conferences there with the Gymnosophists, t... ...e chief of the augurs covered Numa’s head, and turned his face towards the south, and, standing behind him, laid his right hand on his head, and praye... ...to make great innovations. The frame of govern- ment which Numa formed was democratic and popular to 128 V olume One the last extreme, goldsmiths and... ... ending had, to all observation, been neither rainy nor much troubled with southern winds; and of the many lakes, brooks, and springs of all sorts wit... ...t with the many and poor, contrary to his natural bent, which was far from democratical; but, most likely, fearing he might fall under suspicion of ai... ...ty- rants, and emulating and admiring Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian above all politicians, adhered to the aristocratical principles of government; and ha...

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... Julia, now married to Robert Cunningham, had come home for Christmas. The party was seated in the drawing-room, that the grown- up daughters had made... ... dance. Jim stood apart, with his legs straddled, a motionless figure. The party round the tree became absorbed and excited as more ruddy tongues of f... ...etter than Asiatics, though they are wallowers— the American races—and the South Sea Islanders—the Marquesans, the Maori blood. That was the true bloo... ...lood. It wasn’t frightened. All the rest are craven—Europeans, Asiat- ics, Africans—everyone at his own individual quick craven and cringing: only con... ...ing itself of the moment, and seeking further, deeper interests. These old Africans! And Atlantis! Strange, strange wisdom of the Kabyles! Old, old da... ...ashed about, rather bewildered, having crossed the Alps in their migration southwards. Aaron noted with gratification a certain big magnificence, a ce... ... a strange back-water. And the old families are very proud still, in these democratic days. They have a great opinion of themselves, I am told.” “Well... ...casion. He made the two elderly people uncomfortable with his silence: his democratic silence, Miss Wade might have said. However, Miss Wade lived out... ...bred gentlemen, and then perhaps, your profiteers and Rothschilds, and ALL politicians, and ending up with the proletariat,” said Argyle. “Then who wo...

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...of the shipmasters of the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philoso... ...rs of the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the ... ...and, doubtless, so have many other scientific institutions. It is found in South America; its most hideous spread of legs covers a space nearly as lar... ...lldog. Their remarks were possibly not in tended to reach the ears of the party, but certainly were not so cautiously whispered but they occasionally... ...gth (in a society split up into many sects) of being able to rely upon the party sympathies of any one of them. The mob hated him with the blind senti... ...more dense than fragrance, like a certain people whom Pliny men tioned in Africa,—a point, in fact, which the grim Doctor denied, his performance at ... ...nces, now that he was in peace; or to think of the turmoil of mod ern and democratic politics, here in this quietude of gone by ages and customs. The... ...hat if he were restrained from taking it, it would probably only be by the democratic pride that made him feel that he could not, retaining all his ma... ...g found political life as much es tranged from it as it is apt to be with politicians,—yet he had early snuffed the musty fragrance of the Doctor’s b...

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...e Celestine too truly to be her ruin. When I saw you, at the first evening party you gave in our honor, I wondered how that scoundrel Hulot could keep... ... who was said to dine off gold and silver plate, and never to be seen at a party but with diamonds in her hair as big as hazel- nuts, given to her by ... .... “Does heat disagree with you?” “Quite the contrary.” “What do you say to Africa?” “A very nice country!—The French went there with the little Corpor... ... down,” the Baron went on. “That will be enough, I suppose, to take you to Africa?” The old man nodded assent. “As to capital out there, be quite easy... ...ve me, do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have l... ...y love that you may require.” “Well, then, to-night—” “But you, son of the South, my splendid jaguar, come ex- pressly for me from the virgin forest o... ...er the banner of Giraud, a State Councillor, and Victorin Hulot. These two politicians were trying to form a nucleus of progressives in the loose arra... ...r Marshal. Lisbeth, quite as Republican as he could be, pleased him by her democratic opinions, and she flattered him with amazing dexterity; for the ...

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...s notice whenever she was asked. She often sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask t... ...d been very angry , and threatened to prosecute the leaders of the Liberal party in Blackstable. He made up his mind now that nothing Josiah Graves sa... ...n’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.” He leaned back cautiously, fo... ...who generally accompanied them on their rambles, had set out for a tour of South Germany . Philip was left a good deal to himself. Hayward sought his ... ...igno- rant and very humble. By the end of August, when Weeks returned from South Germany, Philip was completely under Hayward’s influ- ence. Hayward d... ...nd with which he felt himself at home. He was like the explorer in Central Africa who comes suddenly upon wide uplands, with great trees in them and s... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si... ...acalister. “Something is sure to turn up soon. There’ll be a boom in South Africans again one of these days, and then I’ll see what I can do for you.”...

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...qual opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all th... ...to cry aloud for me. Europe has slaves, allies, kings, armies still, And Southey lives to sing them very ill. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 5 ... ...l, and, forced to fly, Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin Some went to Africa, some stay’d in Spain, Her great great grandmamma chose to remai... ...e. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Four” 114 By one of these, the buffo of the party, Juan was told about their curious case; For although destine... ...corporal Some Cossacques, hovering like hawks round a hill, Had met a party towards the twilight’s fall, One of whom spoke their tongue—or we... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ...fought their fox hunt o’er again, And then retreated soberly—at ten. The politicians, in a nook apart, Discuss’d the world, and settled all th... ..., Thou hast struck one immense Colossus down, Thou moral Washington of Africa! But there ‘s another little thing, I own, Which you should ... ...the other way, And wax an ultra royalist in loyalty, Because I hate even democratic royalty. I think I should have made a decent spouse, If ...

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...ace of the whole world. The Working Man would arise—in the form of a Labor Party, and with young men like Parload and myself to represent him—and come... ...th that.” My brains, my eloquence, were to be very important assets to our party in the coming revolution… . But one thing does clearly belong to this... ...ysentery and bad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of about three thousand pounds per head... ...ry and bad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of about three thousand pounds per head —they... ... like a free fight, and off with a rush and clatter east, west, north, and south. The interest passes outwardly; the men from the little rooms are goi... ...ere not in request. They made a peculiar class at that time, these English politicians and statesmen, a class that has now completely passed away. In ... ...inally altogether replaced, the thin and vague aspirations of the original democratic ideals. They presented not only the per- sonalities who led our ... ...d and judged like a rally in some idiotic pantomime. A tragic war in South Africa, that wrecked many thousand homes, impoverished two whole lands, and... ... they ruled and influenced the lives of nearly a quarter of mankind, these politicians, their clownish conflicts swayed the world, made mirth perhaps,...

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...ot in ac- cord altogether. The sisters sat silent, waiting for the wedding party to come out. Gudrun was impatient of talk. She wanted to think about ... ...ceive her flare of recognition. The bride and bridegroom were married, the party went into the vestry. Hermione crowded involuntarily up against Birki... ...d ugly. But there were several negro statues, wood- 70 carvings from West Africa, strange and disturbing, the carved negroes looked almost like the f... ...ere the people go about naked.’ ‘Oh really!’ exclaimed Halliday. ‘Where?’ ‘South America—Amazon,’ said Gerald. ‘Oh but how perfectly splendid! It’s on... ...idly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. It was a terrible f... ..., handsome young Englishman, Alexander tall and the handsome politi- cian, democratic and lucid, Hermione strange like a long Cassandra, and the women... ...could never tell why Beldover was so utterly different from London and the south, why one’s whole feelings were differ- ent, why one seemed to live in... ...highest of flowers, hence its charm.’ ‘No,’ she cried, ‘no—never. It isn’t democratic.’ ‘No,’ he admitted. ‘It’s the golden mob of the proletariat, su... ... Then for days, Ursula saw the persistent, obtrusive birds as stout, short politicians lifting up their voices from the platform, little men who must ...

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......................480 To a Locomotive in Winter................484 O Magnet South................................485 All Is Truth....................... ... ELF I S ING One’s self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not ... ... through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We confer on equal terms w... ...to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their ... ... with dwellers? 2 Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens, Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west, Band... ...I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe, I see them in Asia and in Africa. I see the electric telegraphs of the earth, I see the filaments o... ...fter the physician, the beggar’s tramp, the drunkard’s stagger, the laughing party of mechanics, The escaped youth, the rich person’s carriage, the fo... ...the good old cause in it? Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies’ lands? Does it not assume that what is... ...ion grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee, Thee in thy democratic fetes en masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers...

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...te caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. M. Blériot has done very w... ... barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia, Europe, North Africa worked its way with an indomitable pertinacity. The enor- mous major... ...fi- cial banking back that migrations on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. ... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ...hods and traditions is leading us towards grave dangers, intensi- fies. In South Africa the Boers taught us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact... ... is an impos- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a democratic re- public, every gre... ...e mines are to be a democratic re- public, every great industry is to be a democratic republic 67 H. G . Wells within the State; our community is to ...

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...save only that of slavery. So far as I can perceive, by such union neither party need yield any- thing on the point in difference between them. If the... ...d from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fift... ...one on to ask whether so great a grievance as the present detention of the Southern mail ought not to be remedied. Mr. Lincoln would assure the gentle... ...ced by the President. I admit that such a vote should not be given in mere party wantonness, and that the one given is justly censurable if it have no... ...at may properly be called an internal im- provement veto message. The late Democratic conven- tion, which sat at Baltimore, and which nominated Gen- e... ...eral Cass for the Presidency, adopted a set of resolutions, now called the Democratic platform, among which is one in these words: “That the Constitut... ...owed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. In all the great ques- tions which have agitated the country, ... ... of the globe?” This suggestion of the possible ultimate redemption of the African race and African continent was made twenty- five years ago. Every s... ...g slavery to go into our own free territory than it would for reviving the African slave trade by law. The law which forbids the bringing of slaves fr...

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...wnership of land and capital. Com- munal ownership may mean ownership by a democratic State, but cannot be held to include ownership by any State whic... ...c State, but cannot be held to include ownership by any State which is not democratic. Communal ownership may also be under- stood, as Anarchist Commu... ...dulge in Utopian dreams and failed to found any strong or stable political party. T o Marx, in collaboration with Engels, are due both the for- mulati... ...ternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been de- cried as communistic by its oppon... ...y politics. The Anarchists, from 1883 onward, had success in Paris and the South. The Socialists contended that the State will disappear after the Soc... ... development as showing the vanity of political triumphs. Very many French politicians who have risen to power have begun their political career as So... ..., the Panama policy, and the new application of the Monroe doctrine to the South American States. South America is needed as a preferential market for... ...f capi- tal from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, etc., into South African or Australian mines, into Egyptian bonds, or the precarious securit... ...se but his chains, nor indeed is this true. The chains which bind Asia and Africa in subjection to Europe are partly riveted by him. He is himself par...

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... faction in the work, had there been no disruption be- tween the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object wh... ...om. And now touching this war which had broken out be- tween the North and South before I left England. I would wish to explain what my feelings were;... ...y of State to declare openly that England intended to side either with one party or with the other, or else to remain neutral between them. I had hear... ...er of the cause and ground for revolu- tion, it is so very easy for either party to put in a plea that shall be satisfactory to itself! Mr. and Mrs. J... ...ich it may have been guilty will be condoned by the world. The Southern or Democratic party of the United States had, as all men know, been in power f... ...s of such immigrations were over. This plan of sending back the negroes to Africa did not reach me only from one or from two mouths, and it was sugges... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...h in color and form from their brothers who have been born and nurtured in Africa. I said in the last chapter that the City of Ottawa was still to be ... ...d assisted at its birth. In Massachusetts itself, also, there was a strong Democratic party, of which Massachusetts now seems to be somewhat ashamed. ...

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...cheap; nor is anything they want lacking. On the walls hang a large map of South America, a pictorial advertisement of a steamship company, an impres-... ...DBENT. Where else can I go? I am an Englishman and a Liberal; and now that South Africa has been enslaved and destroyed, there is no country left to m... ... Where else can I go? I am an Englishman and a Liberal; and now that South Africa has been enslaved and destroyed, there is no country left to me to t... ... an Englishman’s first duty is his duty to Ireland? Unfortunately, we have politicians here more unscrupulous than Bobrikoff, more bloodthirsty than A... .... It has often struck me as a most re- markable circumstance that the only party in parliament which shows the genuine old English character and spiri... ...ment which shows the genuine old English character and spirit is the Irish party. Look at its independence, its determination, its defiance of bad Gov... ...mpatiently springing up and walking about]. For instance, Home Rule, South Africa, Free T rade, and the Edu- cation Rate. Well, I should differ from m... .... Well, we mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. I tell yo... ... capital while you slave like bees for it and revenge yourselves by paying politicians and penny newspa- pers out of your small wages to write article...

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... cannot do while over here and over there men hold themselves bound by old party formulae, by loyal- ties and institutions, that are becoming, that ha... ...d devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a whole and completely, as it conduces m... ...rating me from every En- glish-speaking, English-thinking person who lives south of the Great Lakes. So long as men are content to work in the 21 H G... ...ype, the dusky Jewess, the tall, fair Scandinavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each... ...unavoidable epidemic of measles killed some thousands of children in South Africa, who, for some idiotic or wicked vote-catching purpose, attempted to... ...schools, is English adequately taught. And these people ex- pect the South African Dutch to take over their neglected tongue! As though the poor parti... ... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ...

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...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...t consulted his senior advisers about his remarks. No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacke... ...read of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and even into Europe within less than a cen- tury—seemed, and seems... ...ed by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party of Syria and Iraq) that called for a single, secular Arab state. Howe... ... in Khartoum. 30 Bin Ladin agreed to help Turabi in an ongoing war against African Christian separatists in southern Sudan and also to do some road bu... ...Muslim states.A cen- tral government has been established in Kabul, with a democratic constitution, new currency, and a new army. Most Afghans enjoy g... ... communities.Y et even if his efforts are successful and elections bring a democratic government to Afghanistan, the United States faces some difficul... ...n, dominated by a wealthy and indolent elite. Saudi contacts with American politicians are frequently invoked as accusations in partisan polit- ical a...

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...them contrived to procure a monopoly for themselves: it is useful also for politicians to understand these things, for many states want to raise money... ...ent in species, but more or less are not. And yet it is wonderful that one party ought to have them, and the other not; for if he who is to govern sho... ...describe different parts of the world, does sometimes happen; for in Upper Africa there are wives in common who yet deliver their children to their re... ...t, the sen- ate the oligarchical; and, that in the ephori may be found the democratical, as these are taken from the people. But some say, that in the... ...r, and that it is their common meal and daily course of life, in which the democratical form is represented. It is also said in this trea- tise of [12... ...t, which have been proposed either by private persons, or philosophers, or politicians, all of which come much nearer to those which have been really ... ...hould bring with him a tablet, on which he should write, that he found the party guilty, if it was so, but if not, he should bring a plain tablet; but... ...em chiefly to be two, as they say, of the winds: namely, the north and the south; and all the others are declinations from these. And thus in politics... ...s they consider the west as part of the north, and the east as part of the south: and thus it is in music, according to some, who say there are only t...

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... principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other mo- tives not more laudable than these, ar... ...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ...se the prospect of present loss or advantage may often tempt the governing party in one or two States to swerve from good faith and justice; but those... ...the north- ern hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more southern parts of America which it formerly did in the southern parts of Eu... ...e it might and probably would happen that the foreign nation with whom the southern confederacy might be at war would be the one with whom the norther... ...of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than of democratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which render... ...y fraud, has, in different de- grees, extended her dominion over them all. Africa, Asia, and America, have successively felt her domination. The super... ...ess perceived, as most of the popular governments of antiquity were of the democratic species; and even in modern Europe, to which we owe the great pr... ...by so great a majority of the Union. Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the o...

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...any separate choice of your own, on becoming a Roman citizen, you become a party to the Roman worship.’ For an idolatrous religion to proselytize, wou... ...ning was, that he gave a dinner. And not only was every sacrifice a dinner party, but every dinner party was a sacrifice. This was strictly so in the ... ...ted Socinian, which, in a petty diocese that he never visited, and amongst South Welshmen, that are all incorrigible Methodists, mattered little, but ... ...having the antiquity and the incomprehensible omniscience of the Simorg in Southey, transferred this right of mere ne- cessity to the individuals of t... ...he West Indies, and indispensable it is that we should. The Obeah man from Africa can do no mischief to one of us. The proud and enlightened white man... ...y interpretation) in his utter ruin; that the sudden revolution, through a democratic movement, which was to raise himself and his brother apostles in... ...y withdraw from the mission with which God had charged him, far less could politicians and magistrates under any allegation of public inconveniences p... ..., at different periods, twice invaded the piratical states in the north of Africa. The last of these invasions, directed against Algiers, failed miser... ...ion of an oath, (for which there was surely reason enough in days when the democratic tri- bunals were forcing men to swear to an et caetera;) and, by...

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... of my poor dear wife. Just before they set out from San Francisco for the South Seas old Mr Hurlbird said he must take something with him to make lit... ...e for me just good people—fortunate people with broad and sunny acres in a southern county. Just good people! By heavens, I sometimes think that it wo... ...been given a thin-shelled pullet’s egg to carry on my palm from Equatorial Africa to Hoboken. Yes, she became for me, as it were, the subject of a bet... ...erend Mother at the convent she had left and about whether her frock for a party when they got home should be white or blue. It hadn’t come into his h... ...enever the four parents met in London, Edward Ashburnham was always of the party. He was at that time twenty-two and, I believe, almost as pure in min... ...tural thing in the world that they should pool their sorrows. He was quite democratic; the idea of the difference in their station never seems to have... ...haps, they imagined that I wanted to buy a newspaper, for they were either politicians or reporters, which, of course, comes to the same thing. As a m... ...-colonel during the shuffling of troops that went on just before the South African War. He was sent off somewhere else and, of course, Mrs Basil could...

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...een cherished in thankfulness for a country drama. There would have been a party against her, cold people, critical of her pretensions to rise from an... ...d sphere to be mistress of Patterne Hall, but there would also have been a party against Sir Willoughby, composed of the two or three revolutionists, ... ...ities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic cousins”, he said. Such cousins! They might all have been in the... ...e coldness, and gave him the distinction of a far-seen solitary iceberg in Southern waters. The popular notion of hereditary titled aristocracy resemb... ...ted Captain Patterne to visit me: just pre- vious to his departure for the African Coast, where Govern- ment despatches Marines when there is no other... ...up to some of the lesser heights of Switzerland and Styria, and settled in South Tyrol, the young lady pre- ferring this district for the strenuous ex... ...back fresh to their own characters, instead of giving themselves a dose of Africa without a savage to diversify it: an impression they never get over,... ...e Irish or half Irishmen are my taste. If they’re not 335 George Meredith politicians, mind; I mean Irish gentlemen. I will never have another dinner...