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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... regard to morals and religion , shall become predominant in that colony , will also acquire influence and predominance in all the others , and consequently over millions and millions more of the human family in all future generations ...
... regard to morals and religion , shall become predominant in that colony , will also acquire influence and predominance in all the others , and consequently over millions and millions more of the human family in all future generations ...
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... regard himself as the representative of the Sovereign of a free people ; and in so far as Her Majesty the Queen , and the inhabitants of the British Isles , are concerned , so he is . But it is equally natural for His Excellency to ...
... regard himself as the representative of the Sovereign of a free people ; and in so far as Her Majesty the Queen , and the inhabitants of the British Isles , are concerned , so he is . But it is equally natural for His Excellency to ...
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... regard as a direct and intolerable usurpation . I have myself seen many and great changes in this colony during the last twenty years , and whoever lives twenty more will see still greater . He will see such a state of things as we are ...
... regard as a direct and intolerable usurpation . I have myself seen many and great changes in this colony during the last twenty years , and whoever lives twenty more will see still greater . He will see such a state of things as we are ...
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... regard that inch as of value in so far as it enables them to obtain the whole ell that is their due . Responsible government for the colonies is our pole - star , the point to which we tend ; and with anything short of this we cannot be ...
... regard that inch as of value in so far as it enables them to obtain the whole ell that is their due . Responsible government for the colonies is our pole - star , the point to which we tend ; and with anything short of this we cannot be ...
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... regard as one of the happiest omens for the colonies ; I am now returning to Australia with the bitterest disappointment and the deepest disgust , cherishing precisely the same feeling as the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Franklin did , when ...
... regard as one of the happiest omens for the colonies ; I am now returning to Australia with the bitterest disappointment and the deepest disgust , cherishing precisely the same feeling as the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Franklin did , when ...
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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