Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe,... Abraham Lincoln, the First American - Page 221by David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1864 - 492 pages
...commenced, rise up to assert that right. "Any people. anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have a right to rise up and shake off the existing government,...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...region depended, not upon any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attended it), but on revolution. Any people, anywhere, being inclined, and having the...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...region depended, not upon any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attended it), but on revolution. Any people, anywhere, being inclined, and having the...and shake off the existing government, and form a naw one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we... | |
| Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1861 - 504 pages
...January 1848, peculiarly striking, and exactly suited to the existing condition of the country. most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is the right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to... | |
| Frank Moore - 1864 - 868 pages
...expression which may well be considered dangerous in the present crisis of our national history. You said: " Any people, anywhere^ being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases where the people of an existing government may choose to exercise... | |
| Hiram Fuller - 1863 - 352 pages
...they call good Secession seed:— Any people, any where, being inclined, and having the power, have a right to rise up and shake off the existing government,...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
| George McHenry - 1863 - 372 pages
...Representatives on January 12, 1848 : Any people, anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have a right to rise up and shake off the existing Government...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
| George McHenry - 1863 - 372 pages
...Rcpresentatives on January 12, 1848: Any people, anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have a right to rise up and shake off the existing Government...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
| John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - 1863 - 224 pages
...Congress, Hon.. Abraham *\fJJ-°^ evo " of the President's message, in which he said: y _ . ; r A. LINCOLN. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise Speech,^ June up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.... | |
| John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - 1863 - 230 pages
...speech on the reference taught by Hon. * r A. LINCOLN. of the President's message, in which he said : Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise Kprtcb. June up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. Cong^gio^^... | |
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