| United States. Congress. House - 1861 - 340 pages
...earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness ?" " Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties...resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation. The call was made, and the response of the country was most gratifying, surpassing... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 308 pages
...earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" " Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties...the issue, no choice was left but to call out the Avar power of the government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its... | |
| 1861 - 520 pages
...is of a despotic tendency, is still more strongly evidenced by the president's own words : " Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" There is no sophistry here ; President Lincoln openly avows what has long been foreshadowed of the... | |
| 1861 - 520 pages
...far succeeded. They will not look carelessly, therefore, on the great question of to-day, " Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " It is true that in ordinary times the great body of them know, care, and think as little of America... | |
| 1861 - 458 pages
...foes .... It forces us to ask : ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ?' Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Here we have the measure of the political insight of the man who, in the great crisis of America,... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...all republies, this inherent and fatal weakness ?' ' Must a government, of necessity, be too tlrong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?' " So viewing the issne, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government ; and so to resist force... | |
| 1861 - 456 pages
...existence? 4. jцц ^f So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power 18e1' of the government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation. ^f The call was made, and the response of the country was most gratifying, surpassing... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1861 - 886 pages
...necessity be too strong for the liberties of ita own people, or two weak to maintain its own existence?*' No choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government to resist the force employed for its destruction. The President proceeds to explain I and justify the... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...inherent and HO. 47. faial weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for tneVg"^te liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" 4. Juli 1f So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power 1SG1 of the government;... | |
| Frank Moore - 1862 - 830 pages
...earth. It forces us to ask, " Is tli3i-e in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness '1 " Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...existence? So viewing the issue, no choice was left bat to call out the war power of the Government, an;l so to resist the force employed for its destruction... | |
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