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The Will Of A Majority Is The Will Of A Rabble. Progressive Democracy Is Incompatable With Liberty.

[the Taxing Power Of The State] Divides The Community Into Two Great Classes: One Consisting Of Those Who, In Reality, Pay The Taxes And, Of Course, Bear Exclusively The Burden Of Supporting The Government; And The Other, Of Those Who Are The Recipients Of Their Proceeds Through Disbursements,and Who Are, In Fact, Supported By The Government; Or, In Fewer Words, To Divide It Into Tax-payers And Tax-consumers. But The Effect Of This Is To Place Them In Antagonistic Relations In Reference To The Fiscal Action Of The Government And The Entire Course Of Policy Therewith Connected.

We Have Had So Many Years Of Prosperity, We Have Passed Through So Many Difficulties And Dangers Without The Loss Of Liberty - That We Begin To Think That We Hold It By Divine Right From Heaven Itself ... It Is Harder To Preserve Than To Obtain Liberty.

I Take Higher Ground. I Hold That In The Present State Of Civilization, Where Two Races Of Different Origin, And Distinguished By Color, And Other Physical Differences, As Well As Intellectual, Are Brought Together, The Relation Now Existing In The Slaveholding States Between The Two, Is, Instead Of An Evil, A Good—a Positive Good. . . . I Hold Then, That There Never Has Yet Existed A Wealthy And Civilized Society In Which One Portion Of The Community Did Not, In Point Of Fact, Live On The Labor Of The Other.

I Never Know What South Carolina Thinks Of A Measure. I Never Consult Her. I Act To The Best Of My Judgment, And According To My Conscience. If She Approves, Well And Good. If She Does Not, Or Wishes Any One To Take My Place, I Am Ready To Vacate. We Are Even.