Reading the Early RepublicHarvard University Press, 2009 M06 30 - 370 páginas Reading the Early Republic focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave narratives of the early American nation are richer and more intricate than modern readers have perceived. Rebellion, slavery, and treason--the mingled stories of the Revolution--still haunt national thought. Robert Ferguson shows that the legacy that made the country remains the idea of what it is still trying to become. He cuts through the pervading nostalgia about national beginnings to recapture the manic-depressive tones of its first expression. He also has much to say about the reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic, the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the original claims of prosperity as national virtue. Reading the Early Republic uses the living textual tradition against history to prove its case. The first formative writings are more than sacred artifacts. They remain the touchstones of the durable promise and the problems in republican thought |
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... remains , however , a crucial link to " the past as it was " in this case . In the most literate culture that the world had yet seen , success depended on " the intimate relation be- tween the use of letters and the making of the ...
... remains , however , a crucial link to " the past as it was " in this case . In the most literate culture that the world had yet seen , success depended on " the intimate relation be- tween the use of letters and the making of the ...
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... remains an ongoing issue in the troubled opening of the twenty - first century . This book proposes that many eighteenth - century works of note have been either forgotten or flattened in later ideological manipulations of them and that ...
... remains an ongoing issue in the troubled opening of the twenty - first century . This book proposes that many eighteenth - century works of note have been either forgotten or flattened in later ideological manipulations of them and that ...
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... remains the minister's daughter . Foster carefully notes how Eliza's growing worldliness and intelligent reading of serious literature serve to " re- mind [ her ] of an awful futurity , for which I am unprepared " ( LXII , 135 ) ...
... remains the minister's daughter . Foster carefully notes how Eliza's growing worldliness and intelligent reading of serious literature serve to " re- mind [ her ] of an awful futurity , for which I am unprepared " ( LXII , 135 ) ...
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... remains in Africa even though his entire experience from the age of eight has been in Amer- ica . As the slave tells one master when unjustly threatened with ban- ishment , " I crossed the waters to come here and I am willing to cross ...
... remains in Africa even though his entire experience from the age of eight has been in Amer- ica . As the slave tells one master when unjustly threatened with ban- ishment , " I crossed the waters to come here and I am willing to cross ...
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... remains a seri- ous theme of debate even today.30 Broteer is caught in that conflict so intrinsically that there is no way for him to be either one or the other ; he is necessarily both , and this contributes to his frustrations . Com ...
... remains a seri- ous theme of debate even today.30 Broteer is caught in that conflict so intrinsically that there is no way for him to be either one or the other ; he is necessarily both , and this contributes to his frustrations . Com ...
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The Dialectic of Liberty | 51 |
The Commonalities of Common Sense | 84 |
Becoming American | 120 |
The Forgotten Publius | 151 |
Finding Rome in America | 172 |
Gabriels Rebellion | 198 |
Jefferson at Monticello | 218 |
Charity in the City of Brotherly Love | 234 |
The Last Early Republican Text | 254 |
Epilogue | 282 |
Notes | 293 |
Index | 353 |
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Página 83 - Without doubt, it denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
Página 49 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter, — with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
Página 63 - Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired ; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Página 44 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 44 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them...
Página 42 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 118 - ... let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter ; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God ; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king ; and there ought to be no other.
Página 66 - ... they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it.
Página 81 - FOR the principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature ; but which could not be preserved in peace without that mutual assistance and intercourse which is gained by the institution of friendly and social communities. Hence it follows, that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain and regulate these absolute rights of individuals.