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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Constitution and the Constitution. (search)
rs ago, described the attitude of protectionists toward Philippine products as the quintessence of selfishness. Class legislation may, in general, be so defined. But it is so, most abhorrently, when it operates to rally section against section, by making burden to one bounty to the other. Better way could not be devised for breeding a ruling class to which honest conditions must be intolerable. The same distinguished gentleman, in an address, delivered last July, at the courthouse of Bath county, described the opposite of free government —abroad, he said, people saw in government an entity different from themselves. When people feel that their government is their own, one for which they are responsible, that the administration of justice represents their own conviction of what is just; so long, said the speaker, we can count on a continuance of free government. But why go abroad for the object lesson which on such continental scale, has been seen at home? The republican party,