Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Have an opinion of your own, and express it. If it differs materially from the views taken in the lectures, be able to state the grounds for your dissent...
...correspondent are true, the training which the speakers in the Union are getting must be very harmful to their powers of expression, to their modes of thought, and to their conceptions of what argument should be. Therefore, a warning should be made in time. We feel obliged to dissent from the statement of the committee: and from our own experience at the debates, we must frankly admit that there is a lamentable carelessness in the manner in which many speeches are delivered. Likewise, the substance of many speeches is either totally irrelevant to the subject, or else the old attempts...
...obvious that either a parade must be non-partisan, or the class, as a class, cannot be represented in it. The writer does not see, apparently, that it is just as absurd for Blaine, or, perchance, Butler, as for Cleveland, for in each case there are those who would dissent from such action. His letter gives the impression that the "unreasonableness" is all on one side, but evidently it is not. It must be granted, even according to his somewhat one-sided argument, that in fairness to everyone, the parade must be non-partisan in character...
...Have a walk of your own and use it. If it differs materially from the views expressed above, be able to state the ground of your dissent...
...Goodies' Benevolent Association, the prevailing low price of wages was vigorously discussed, and by many it was thought that the only refuge from the present distressing condition of affairs for the guild lay in a general strike. Prudent council finally prevailed, not, however, before very emphatic dissent from the policy of conciliation was expressed by not a few. The dissatisfied ones subsequently met in secret session, and these discussed their wrongs long and earnestly. A plan of proceeding was hit upon and agreed to by all present. After careful investigation, we are able to divulge its details to the public...