All profess to be content in the Union if all constitutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written in the Constitution, has been denied? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach... Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 333by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...written in the Constitution, has been denied? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this....constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution — certainly would, if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case. All... | |
| Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...written in the Constitution, has been denied ? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this....numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly-written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view, justify revolution ; certainly... | |
| History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...written in the Constitution, has been denied ? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this....numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly-written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution — certainly... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...denied? I think not. Happily, the human mind is so constituted that no Party can reach to the andneity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a single instance...numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly-written Constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution ; certainly... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...written in the Constitution, has been denied? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a 'ingle instance, in which a plainly-written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied? If,... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...written in the Constitution, has been denied ? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted, that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this....constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution ; it certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case. "... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...Constitution has been denied ? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach the audacity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly-written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. " One section of our country believes... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...written in the Constitution, has been denied ? I think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this....constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution —certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case. All... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...written in the Constitution, has been denied ? I think not. Happily, the human mind is so constituted, that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this....numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly-written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution; it certainly... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this. Tim!. , if yon can, of a single instance in which a plainly written...constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution — certainly would if each right were a vital one. But such is not oar ease. All... | |
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