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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... principle is never found alone but always in company with other erroneous principles of the same family , so every act of usurpation , on the part of those who have might but not right on their side , will always be found either ...
... principle is never found alone but always in company with other erroneous principles of the same family , so every act of usurpation , on the part of those who have might but not right on their side , will always be found either ...
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... principles , was President of the United States from 1848 until his premature death in 1850. It was a time of bitter debate over the slavery issue . ( see Plate 6 ) On board the ship Clifton , off Gravesend 14 November 1849 My Lord , it ...
... principles , was President of the United States from 1848 until his premature death in 1850. It was a time of bitter debate over the slavery issue . ( see Plate 6 ) On board the ship Clifton , off Gravesend 14 November 1849 My Lord , it ...
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... principle of your lordship's administration , these recommendations and requests have been left unheeded , and a course diametrically opposed to the wishes and interests of the best portion of the colonists has been pursued . Your ...
... principle of your lordship's administration , these recommendations and requests have been left unheeded , and a course diametrically opposed to the wishes and interests of the best portion of the colonists has been pursued . Your ...
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... principle of the British Constitution so generally admitted as that the taxes of any country are the property of the people , and can only be appropriated by the people through their acknowledged representatives . ( Applause . ) But ...
... principle of the British Constitution so generally admitted as that the taxes of any country are the property of the people , and can only be appropriated by the people through their acknowledged representatives . ( Applause . ) But ...
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... principles — they must either go as shepherds and stockmen into the interior , or open a butcher's shop , or get a publican's license for one or other of our colonial towns , expending their energies thenceforth in such trivial and ...
... principles — they must either go as shepherds and stockmen into the interior , or open a butcher's shop , or get a publican's license for one or other of our colonial towns , expending their energies thenceforth in such trivial and ...
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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