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" any other pretenses, or arbitrarily, without any pretense, break up their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: 'Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?' ' Must a government,... "
John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet ... - Page 252
by John Sherman - 1895 - 1239 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 310

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1940 - 790 pages
...profoundest problem confronting a democracy—the problem which Lincoln cast in memorable dilemma: "Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" No mere textual reading or logical talisman can...
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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 1126

United States - 1861 - 346 pages
...upon the pretences made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their government, and thus practically put...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government; and so...
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Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 308 pages
...upon the pretences made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their government, and thus practically put...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the Avar power of the government; and so...
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Congressional Serial Set

United States - 1861 - 262 pages
...upon the pretences made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their government, and thus practically put...strong for the liberties of its own people, or too iceak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5 ...

1861 - 458 pages
...the same people—can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes .... It forces us to ask: 'Is there in all republics this...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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National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and ..., Volume 1

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 674 pages
...upon the pretences made in this case or any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their government, and thus practically put...end to free government upon the earth. It forces us tc ask, 'Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness V ' Must a government of necessity...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...upon the pretences made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their Government, and thus practically put...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government ; and so to...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...upon the pretences made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their Government, and thus practically put...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Administration according to the organic law in any case, can always, upon the pretenses made in this case, or any other pretenses, or arbitrarily without . any...in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ?'' Mus£ a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak...
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The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ...

Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...upon the pretences made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily without any pretence, break up their Government, and thus practically put..."Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weaknesa?" "Must a Government of necessity be too tlrong for the liberties of its own people, or too...
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