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There is no succour ... against mobs & factions which have assumed despotic power.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “There is no succour ... against mobs & factions which have assumed despotic power.”
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Beveridge warns about the dangers posed by mobs and factions that seize power, highlighting the need for protection against tyranny.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
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