Traian Basescu Quotes
More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people.
"Basescu: Romania needs to end abuses, coup d'etat." Agerpres, 24 Jul. 2012.
Tamoyo ceased publication in 1823. It’s name comes from the name of an indigenous Indian tribe. A region of Brazil has been given the same name.
In 1786, many veterans of the American Revolution had still not yet been paid the promised wages for their military service by the new national government. The States however had imposed taxes on farms to fund the new state governments and pay the state’s war debts mostly to rich merchants. Many veterans could not pay the taxes and some were thrown into debtors’ prison, and others had their farms foreclosed. Led by Daniel Shays, a small group of Massachusetts men conducted a mini rebellion by closing local court houses and tried to take over the local state armory. The Governor put down the rebellion by force and the rebels were jailed. Samuel Adams, the former governor, recommended the death penalty (see {630527}), and several of the rebels were executed. Thomas Jefferson disagreed, via this famous quotation. This was one of the early crises of the new country and it was handled very poorly and unfairly.
This quotation is historically important because Davis clearly states the reason for the rebellion of the South. The anti-slave states were growing at a greater rate than the slave states and despite the greater voting power that a southerner had (a result of the 3/5 count of slaves for census purposes, and the Senate), the handwriting was on the wall and the majority of the United States was against the vicious institution of slavery and would make it unprofitable, impossible and/or illegal in the coming years. Southern slavery advocates saw this as a “tyranny of the majority” and therefore took up arms. In the early 20th century, apologists for the Southern rebellion tried to promote the idea that there were reasons other than slavery, but this quotation and the resolutions of the states who withdrew from the Union make it clear that the right to maintain slavery was the only significant issue. In that sense it was a States’ Rights issue, but the South was opposed to States’ Rights when it came to States refusing to return fugitive slaves when Federal Law required such under the Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision.
The pamphlet was banned in Russia but was published in Germany and other parts of Europe.
The "It" referred to the fact that when he won the Gambian Presidential election, his predecessor refused to step down and had enough control of the military to prevent anyone else in the Gambia to force hium out. However a few neighboring Afriucan States sen troops into the Gambia. The Army did not want a way and so they stopped supporting the ex-president and he left the country in disgrace.
Traian Băsescu is a Romanian conservative politician who served as President of Romania from 2004 to 2014.
