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Rather the big Morgan, who knew the old masters as well as he knew the weaknesses of men ... who hobnobbed, not as a democrat, but as aristocratic as the best of them, with princes, kings, emperors, in his grim, forbidding dignity. This at least presented bigness and romance! "Want to meet Uncle Bill?" and Mackworth led me into a close-shut room blue-thick with smoke.... I coughed and choked.
Their vices, too, were the same; only Mirabeau's were those of a patrician, Danton's those of a democrat; that which there was of daring in the conceptions of Mirabeau, was to be found in Danton, but in another way, because, in the revolution, he belonged to another class and another epoch.
Martin's energetic promptness, he had his patient comfortably placed in the democrat on an improvised stretcher and on his way to the city hospital. And thus it came about that the problem of his leave-taking, which had vexed Cameron for so many days, was solved. "Another basket of eggs, Mr. Cameron, and such delicious cream! I am deeply grieved to see you so nearly well." "Grieved?"
Impulsive by nature, by education and training a democrat, he naturally espoused the cause of his countrymen. The peculiar condition of the colonies furnished the opportunity to Jefferson's wonderful faculty for writing. The orator could not be heard by all the people of the colonies; but the products of the pen could be carried to the most secluded hamlet.
The solution, he began to think, had arrived at last from the recognition that there were, after all, only two logical theories of government: the one, that power came from below, the other, that power came from above. The infidel, the Socialist, the materialist, the democrat, these maintained the one; the Catholic, the Monarchist, the Imperialist maintained the other.
We're as patient as fishers in the Seine, and the fact that the world has never rocked when the Democrat did come out doesn't discourage us any. We want our paper, and so we stand there and grumble.
Then was the word Republican dropped from the party name, and Democrat became an appellation of definite and practical significance. By this time many of the older States had removed the early restrictions upon voting, and the new States carved out of the West had written manhood suffrage into their constitutions.
"Sue, you won't be angry?" said Isabel, affectionately "but I do so hate to see you drifting, and want to have you as happy as I am! Is there somebody?" "Not unless you count the proprietor of the 'Democrat," Susan laughed. "It's no laughing matter, Sue " Isabel began, seriously. But Susan, laying a quick hand upon her arm, said smilingly: "Isabel! Isabel!
The corrective provision in the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to prevent this grave injustice both to the negro and to the white man but every Democrat in Congress and in the State Legislatures voted against it through all the stages of its enactment and its ratification, and thereby expressed a willingness to give an unfair advantage to the Southern white man, and to establish an unfair discrimination against the Northern white man.
The vote of the Democrats in favor of the Electoral bill, as compared with the Democrats who voted against it in both branches, was in the proportion of more than ten to one; whereas but two-fifths of the Republicans in the two Houses voted for the bill, and three-fifths against it. Only a single Democrat in the Senate, Mr.
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