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" Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? "
Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time - Page 645
by Robert Henry Browne - 1901
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

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...
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Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and ..., Volume 1

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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 123

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...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 71

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...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5 ...

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,...
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The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern ..., Volume 2

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...
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Das Staatsarchiv, Volume 1

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...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 23

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...
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Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der officiellen Actenstücke zur ..., Volume 1

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;...
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The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents ..., Volume 2

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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