With the Hammer of Truth: James Thompson Callender and America's Early National HeroesUniversity of Virginia Press, 17 jan 2013 - 225 pagina's J.T.Callender, political writer and commentator, is renowned for publishing personal information aimed at despoiling the reputation of major public figures. The book shows that Callender saw his pen as a weapon and used it as an instrument to help stem the federalist tide in Philadelphia in 1790s. |
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PHILADELPHIA | 45 |
The Foreign Tool of Domestic Faction? | 74 |
The Blood of the Martyrs Was the Seed of | 110 |
His Hand Should Be against Every Man And Every | 143 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 8 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one and Judge Such-a-one; so with physicians — I will not speak of my own trade — soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Pagina 95 - If ever a nation was debauched by a man, the American nation has been debauched by Washington If ever a nation was deceived by a man, the American nation has been deceived by Washington.
Pagina 95 - If ever there was a period for rejoicing, this is the moment; every heart in unison with the freedom and happiness of the people, ought to beat high with exultation that the name of WASHINGTON, from this day, ceases to give a currency to political iniquity, and to legalize corruption.
Pagina 158 - It is well known that the man, whom it delighteth the people to honor, keeps, and for many years past has kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves. Her name is SALLY.
Pagina 8 - I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it; and if I could compass that design, without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen, without reading.
Pagina 112 - ... might have been to protect, encourage, and reward slander; but they may also have been those which inspire ordinary charities to objects of distress, meritorious or not, or the obligation of an oath to protect the Constitution, violated by an unauthorized act of Congress. Which of these were my motives, must be decided by a regard to the general tenor of my life. On this I am not afraid to appeal to the nation at large, to posterity, and still less to that Being who sees himself our motives,...
Pagina 83 - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Pagina 57 - I have not heard from him in our various private tho' official discussions. The very turn of the arguments is the same, and others will see as well as myself that the style is Hamilton's. The sophistry is too fine, too ingenious, even to have been comprehended by Smith, much less devised by him.
Pagina 93 - has a right to pry into his neighbour's private " concerns ; and the opinions of every man are his " private concerns, while he keeps them so; that " is to say, while they are confined to himself, his "family, and particular friends; but, when he " makes those opinions public; when he once at...