Our First Republicans: John Dunmore Lang, Charles Harpur, Daniel Henry Deniehy : Selected Writings, 1840-1860David John Headon, Elizabeth M. Perkins Lang, Harpur and Deniehy were three of the most outspoken proponents of the Australian Republic in the mid-19th century. Their arguments -- concise, powerful and balanced -- are as relevant today in current Republican debate as they were then. This edited selection of their prose brings together for the first time articles, speeches and letters which show the political and cultural currents in NSW over three decades of important political change. |
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... ' A Sigh for the Forthcoming ' 1851 . Note to ' The Creed of Liberty ' 1851 Our Upper House of Nominees 1853 ' Wentworth's Constitutional Myth ' 1853 72 74 75 77 79 81 .83 86 " Note to ' Marvellous Martin ' 1853 Note to V.
... ' A Sigh for the Forthcoming ' 1851 . Note to ' The Creed of Liberty ' 1851 Our Upper House of Nominees 1853 ' Wentworth's Constitutional Myth ' 1853 72 74 75 77 79 81 .83 86 " Note to ' Marvellous Martin ' 1853 Note to V.
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... house in Georgia ? The famous Bishop Berkeley , a name distinguished in the annals of philoso- phy , when returning to Europe , about the same period , after his unsuccessful attempt to establish a college for the Indians of America in ...
... house in Georgia ? The famous Bishop Berkeley , a name distinguished in the annals of philoso- phy , when returning to Europe , about the same period , after his unsuccessful attempt to establish a college for the Indians of America in ...
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... house in which our fathers worshipped , ' on the hills of Caledonia ! In thus venturing to appeal , on behalf of the interests of our common Christianity in the distant regions of the south , to a people on whom I confess I have no ...
... house in which our fathers worshipped , ' on the hills of Caledonia ! In thus venturing to appeal , on behalf of the interests of our common Christianity in the distant regions of the south , to a people on whom I confess I have no ...
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... House to regard his Excellency in any other light than as the agent of a despotic authority which has usurped the rights and trampled on the privileges of this people , and which has accordingly sent him out its Imperial firman ...
... House to regard his Excellency in any other light than as the agent of a despotic authority which has usurped the rights and trampled on the privileges of this people , and which has accordingly sent him out its Imperial firman ...
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... House to point out how this right of the British people , wherever they are , was nobly asserted and maintained by the handful of British colonists who established themselves on the edge of the great American forest upwards of two ...
... House to point out how this right of the British people , wherever they are , was nobly asserted and maintained by the handful of British colonists who established themselves on the edge of the great American forest upwards of two ...
Contents
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An Anatomical Lecture on the New Constitution 1854 | 47 |
Note to The Proposed Recurrence to Transportation 1 2 1847 | 61 |
A Word More of Mr Wentworth 1850 | 74 |
Biographical Note | 114 |
Review of Charles Harpurs The Bushrangers and Other Poems 1853 | 117 |
Bunyip Aristocracy Speech 1853 | 127 |
Our Countrys Opportunity 1854 | 140 |
Legislative Advancement of Knowledge 1854 | 149 |
The SolicitorGenerals Proposed War Tax 1854 | 155 |
The Small Settler 1855 | 161 |
The Forthcoming Elections 1855 | 167 |
Leaves From A Native Students CommonPlace Book 1856 | 175 |
Speech for The Driving of the First Pile of the Bridge at Queanbeyan 1857 | 183 |
The Recent Demonstration of The Geebungs 1859 | 190 |
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