The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of AmericaH. & E. Phinney, 1838 - 192 páginas |
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Página 88 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ...
Página 23 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right of a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury...
Página 88 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Página 70 - The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. This circumstance, while it certainly serves to elevate the average qualities of a nation, renders the introduction of a high standard difficult. Thus do we find in literature, the arts, architecture and in all acquired knowledge, a tendency in America to gravitate towards the common center in this, as in other things; lending a value and estimation...
Página 172 - According to the doctrines of Christ, we are ' to do as we would be done by ;' but this law is not to be applied to slavery more than to any other interest of life. It is quite possible to be an excellent Christian and a slaveholder ; and the relations of master and slave may be...
Página 184 - ... mixed together in this country, than in regions where the comparative smallness of surface renders contradiction easier. The frequency and all controlling character of the elections keep rumours of a certain sort in constant circulation, bringing in corruption and design in support of other motives. The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false, is one of the last attainments of the human mind. It is the result, commonly, of a long and extensive intercourse with...
Página 95 - They are, in truth, aristocrats in princjple, though assuming a contrary pretension ; the ground work of all their feelings and arguments being self. Such is not the intention of liberty, whose aim is to leave every man to be the master of his own acts ; denying hereditary honors, it is true, as unjust and unnecessary, but not denying the inevitable consequences of civilization. The law of God is the only rule of conduct, in this, as in other matters. Each man should do as he would be done by. Were...
Página 131 - ... and moral courage that are necessary to resist its oppression. The people that has overturned the throne of a monarch, and set up a government of opinion in its stead, and which blindly yields its interests to the designs of those who would rule through the instrumentality of newspapers, has only exchanged one form of despotism for another. It is often made a matter of boasting, that the United States contain so many publick journals. It were wiser to make it a cause of mourning, since the quality,...
Página 71 - It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute publick opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. When the majority of the entire community commits this fault it is a sore grievance, but when local bodies, influenced by local interests, pretend to style themselves the...
Página 97 - The democrat, recognizing the right of all to participate in power, will be more liberal in his general sentiments, a quality of superiority in itself; but in conceding this much to his fellow man, he will proudly maintain his own independence of vulgar domination as indispensable to his personal habits. The same principles and manliness that would induce him to depose a royal despot would induce him to resist a vulgar tyrant.