Opis: Three Political Letters - Sutherland Thomas Jefferson

Excerpt from Three Political Letters: Addressed to Dr. Wolfred Nelson, Late of Lower Canada, Now of Plattsburgh, N. Y

To Dr. Wolfred Nelson,

Late of Lower Canada, new of Plattsburgh, N.Y.:

Dear Sir - A gentleman who professes to reside in Clinton county, and to be acquainted with you, has just informed me that you are new engaging yourself in active measures for the support of the political party in our country, denominated and known as British Whigs; and that you are employing your influence with the people among whom you reside, in order to induce them, at the coming election, to cast their votes for General Harrison, and such other candidates as shall be proposed by the British Whig party, which has put him in nomination.

Robbed of your property and driven from your homes by a merciless British Government, you and others of your countrymen have sought an asylum within the borders of these states, where, by the blessings of Divine Providence, who made powerful the arm of our forefathers, and gave liberty to our country, the poor subject escaping from the dungeon of the despot, and no longer dreading the hand of his oppressor, may set himself down in quiet beside the banished noble, and the dethroned monarch, who here reside, fearless of the machinations of a corrupt court, or the waking vengeance of an injured people - and, here you have the undoubted right to attach yourself to whichever of our political parties your judgment or your partiality may direct, and it is not for me to say where, or where not, you shall use your influence. Yet, sir, as we are now engaged in a political contest of no ordinary importance - but one of the deepest interest not only to ourselves, but to those who shall follow after us, and in which, as I conceive, are put in issue the fundamental principles of democracy, and the question whether we shall longer remain as a free republic, with plain and simple laws, formed in accordance with democratic principles, and having effect alike upon the rich and the poor - or whether we are thus soon to be deprived of them and forced to accept of a gilded tyrannous aristocracy, who would tread us to the earth, I think myself justified in the course I have assumed.

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Szczegóły: Three Political Letters - Sutherland Thomas Jefferson

Nazwa: Three Political Letters Addressed to Dr. Wolfred Nelson, Late of Lower Canada, Now of Plattsburgh, N. Y (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Sutherland Thomas Jefferson
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332528561
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 76
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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