Young Wilmot had to bear his share of the burdens which fell to the lot of all advocates of popular rights in the days when Responsible Government was sneered at by those in authority.
Sir Charles professed to approve of this concession, but his conduct throughout the whole course of his administration was at variance with his professions, and showed that his sympathies were not on the side of popular rights.
Robert Baldwin and Joseph Howe are not more intimately identified with the cause of popular rights in the histories of Upper Canada and Nova Scotia than is Lemuel Allan Wilmot in the history of his native Province.
Regarding Napoleon as the great champion of popular rights, and conscious that there was no one of his marshals who, upon Napoleon's downfall, could take his place, all their energies were directed against him personally.
No one can read this account of the struggle in Europe in favor of popular rights against the old dynasties of feudal oppression, without more highly appreciating the admirable institutions of our own glorious Republic.
Joseph, however, did not think it best to embark at that time in any new enterprise for the restoration of popular rights to France.
Dandled in the lap of luxury, he does not hesitate to descend from it to espouse the immortal cause of popular rights.
He must espouse the immortal cause of popular rights, and be willing to spend and be spent for the people.
We must repudiate, now and forever, these assaults upon the masses of the people and upon the fundamental principles of popular rights.
What the National Congress pronounce here as a matter of right or expediency, or both, touching a question of popular rights, may have an influence elsewhere for good or for evil.
Here was a claim of popular rights as a first principle of government.
It is not so according to the natural meaning of the term, for a Democrat is a friend of popular rights; nor is it so according to the examples of our history, for all these disown the policy of the opposition.
Before he had been a twelvemonth in the country he was known far and wide as an upright judge, and as a sort of champion of popular rights.
The writ was issued, and, to the chagrin and disgust of the supporters of the Government, a new champion of popular rights appeared in the field in the person of Marshall Spring Bidwell, the only son of the recently-expelled member.
What, for example, was the Holy Alliance but an international league of the monarchical and aristocratic parties against the advance of popular rights?
The example of his father, and the teachings of Madame de Genlis, inclined him strongly in the direction of popular rights, though his mother did not at all sympathize with these revolutionary principles.
The voices of the street cannon had summoned Lafayette to Paris, and he consecrated his world-wide renown to the cause of popular rights, for which he had fought in America, and to which he had been ever true in Europe.
In that way alone could the people hope to resist the encroachments of the crown, and to claim any recognition of popular rights.
The attachment of one party to the House of Hanover, of the other to that of Stuart, induced both to talk a language much more favourable to popular rightsthan to monarchical power.
His early prepossessions were on the side of popular rights.
The expulsion of a tyrant, the solemn recognition of popular rights, liberty, security, toleration, all go for nothing with them.
The laudations of Caesar, it is perhaps needless to say, are always from men like Mommsen who are absolutely devoid of any true sympathy for free government or popular rights.
The consuls at the time of Sulla's death were Lepidus and Catulus, both of them elected on account of their supposed absolute loyalty to the policies of Sulla and their disregard of popular rights.
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