 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1849 - 760 pages
...choice of a party, for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations, by flattery or...govern us, and not we the people who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge, that, in such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of,... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...of a party, for its own ends — not of the nation, for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...govern us, and not we the people who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge, that, in such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of,... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...of a party, for its own ends — not of the nation, for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...govern us, and not we the people who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge, that, in such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 792 pages
...choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. And candid men will acknowledge that, in such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of... | |
 | William L. Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 588 pages
...of a party, for its own ends—not of the nation, for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...nations who govern us, and not we the people who govern ourSuch is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...that solitary suffrage can be obtained by ^reign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violenci, by terror, intrigue, or venality, the government may...us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge, that in such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of,... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...choice of a party, for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge, that in such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge that in such cases choice would have little advantage to boast of over... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 pages
...of a party, for its own ends — not of the nation, for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...govern us, and not we the people who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge, that, In such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of,... | |
 | Presidents - 1855 - 512 pages
...choice of a party, for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or...us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves. And candid men will acknowledge, that in such cases, choice would have little advantage to boast of,... | |
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If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary... 
