A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part second, Band 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 |
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... vote for him . In short , will en- lightened and refined people live to be dictated to by a savage and ignorant majority , who will neither allow your character nor your domestic privacy to be safe ! The Americans , in their fear of ...
... vote for him . In short , will en- lightened and refined people live to be dictated to by a savage and ignorant majority , who will neither allow your character nor your domestic privacy to be safe ! The Americans , in their fear of ...
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... according to official report , is sufficient to buy the votes of a large fraction of the popula- tion of the United States , -that is to say , suffi- cient to produce an influence adequate to secure them . 214 GOVERNMENT .
... according to official report , is sufficient to buy the votes of a large fraction of the popula- tion of the United States , -that is to say , suffi- cient to produce an influence adequate to secure them . 214 GOVERNMENT .
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... votes , polled was forty - one thousand three hundred .. It is a notorious fact , that there are not forty thousand legal voters residing in the city . In the abstract this election is but of little impor- tance . Its moral influence on ...
... votes , polled was forty - one thousand three hundred .. It is a notorious fact , that there are not forty thousand legal voters residing in the city . In the abstract this election is but of little impor- tance . Its moral influence on ...
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... vote . What are we coming to in this country ? A peaceable contest at the polls is a peaceable test of party - it is to ascertain the opinions and views of citizens entitled to vote - it is a fair and honourable party appeal to the ...
... vote . What are we coming to in this country ? A peaceable contest at the polls is a peaceable test of party - it is to ascertain the opinions and views of citizens entitled to vote - it is a fair and honourable party appeal to the ...
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... votes over and above the ascertained votes of a ward , are polled in such ward . Men moved from ward to ward to sleep one night as an eva- sive qualification . More than two hundred sailors , from United States ' vessels of war ...
... votes over and above the ascertained votes of a ward , are polled in such ward . Men moved from ward to ward to sleep one night as an eva- sive qualification . More than two hundred sailors , from United States ' vessels of war ...
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