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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... spirit , and indeed in specific vocabulary , to the principal spokesmen of 1776 , especially Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine . If Daniel Deniehy and Charles Harpur were to have an audience for their republican ideas in the early 1850s ...
... spirit , and indeed in specific vocabulary , to the principal spokesmen of 1776 , especially Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine . If Daniel Deniehy and Charles Harpur were to have an audience for their republican ideas in the early 1850s ...
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... spirit of haughty and contemptuous disregard both of the feelings and wishes of British colonists and colonial legislatures , which seems to form a leading principle of your lordship's administration , these recommendations and requests ...
... spirit of haughty and contemptuous disregard both of the feelings and wishes of British colonists and colonial legislatures , which seems to form a leading principle of your lordship's administration , these recommendations and requests ...
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... spirit and nerved the arm of the American colonists for their great and successful struggle for entire freedom and independence in the year 1776 ; ( applause ) and it is mortifying to reflect , that British despotism should have become ...
... spirit and nerved the arm of the American colonists for their great and successful struggle for entire freedom and independence in the year 1776 ; ( applause ) and it is mortifying to reflect , that British despotism should have become ...
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... spirit of full grown Australian men of the nineteenth century , when he takes it for granted that , like mere children , they would be : Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw . ( Much ironical laughter . ) ... . Fellow colonists ...
... spirit of full grown Australian men of the nineteenth century , when he takes it for granted that , like mere children , they would be : Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw . ( Much ironical laughter . ) ... . Fellow colonists ...
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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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