 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholl)' inadmissible... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...harmony only, and prevent renewed secession ? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...harmony only and prevent renewed secession ? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. "A majority held in restraint by constitutional...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible.... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...secession is the essence of anarcby. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitation^ and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only trne sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarcby or to despotism.... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...secession is the essence of anarchy. " A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...only, and prevent renewed secession ? * / Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a> minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint; by constitutional...rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to depotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...harmony only, and prevent renewed secession ? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional...rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to depotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible.... | |
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Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of... 
