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Page 71 - And at such meetings every male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the Commonwealth, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds...
Page 144 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such Provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 24 - No Stamp Act, No Sedition, no Alien Bills, No Land Tax ; downfall to the Tyrants of America, peace and retirement to the President, long live the Vice-President, and the Minority; may moral virtue be the basis of civil government.
Page 36 - The federalists must entrench themselves in the State governments, and endeavor to make State justice and State power a shelter of the wise, and good, and rich, from the wild destroying rage of the southern Jacobins.
Page 76 - and " stop thief," when Jacobinism attempts to burn and rob. It never had the power to put out the fire, or to \ seize the thief.
Page 152 - ... government, on the other, their freedom, safety and happiness require, that they should defend that government and its constitutional measures against the open or insidious attacks of any foe, whether foreign or domestic. And, lastly, that the legislature of Massachusetts feel a strong conviction, that the several United States are connected by a common interest which ought to render their union indissoluble, and that this state will always co-operate with its confederate states in rendering...
Page 131 - I know it will give great offense to the New England clergy; but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them.
Page 32 - Boston are as openly bitter as ever and on the whole the rabies canina of Jacobinism has gradually spread of late years from the cities where it was confined to the docks and mob, to the country . . . all that is base is of course Jacobin and all that is prejudice and jealousy and rancor." To be an Anti-Federalist or "Jacobin," in Eastern Massachusetts, prior to 1800, meant social and business ostracism.
Page 131 - Your part of the Union though as absolutely republican as ours, had drunk deeper of the delusion, and is therefore slower in recovering from it. The aegis of government, and the temples of religion and of justice, have all been prostituted there to toll us back to the times when we burnt witches.
Page 25 - Calld on by Nehh Fales for dimensions of my house & windows & list of land for Direct tax of High Fed' tyrant Gov' I introduce it thus. Nat Ames (regretting the short dawn of rational Liberty under the Confederation — deploring the blindness and apathy of that People who once dared to defy and trample on the minions of foreign tyrants, only to be trampled on by domestic traitors, in impudent junto breaking the limits of their Sovreign — greeted with the tyrant songs of "Energy of Govern'. Tighten...