Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course of the lower South on all domestic questions debated between 1820 and 1850 was in accordance with the economic and political demands of its civilization and it must be said that its public men had their way on all of them. So long as the North did not revolt against declining tariff duties, or insistently demand internal improvements, or try to tear down the subtreasurers and clamor for a bank, it could not be said that there was any irrepressible conflict of any industrial sort. So far, then, as hindsight avails, the Southerners in 1850 could not have seen...
...franchise question caused much trouble, as twelve years were required for any rights of citizenship by foreigners. The free sale of spirits to the natives destroyed their efficiency in the mines; and on all sides the political corruption became so unbearable that the Uitlanders finally determined to revolt...
...Naboth's vineyard. The contest is at bottom one for empire on the one side for independence on the other. The disproportion of resources between the two contestants reminds one of the Persians and Greeks. Our own ancestors had infinitely smaller odds to face when they rose in revolt. The doctrine that we should sympathize with a nation, regardless of the rights of any dispute, merely because it is more civilized, seems to me to be destructive to the principles of international morality...