 | Joseph Keith Newell - Massachusetts - 1875 - 630 pages
...you. " In his message to Congress, the President of the United States says the question at issue is ' must a government of necessity be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?' These are momentous questions. You believe that a free government has power to sustain itself, and... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask : ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? ' " Must a government of necessity...maintain its own existence ? " So viewing the issue," he said, " no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government, and so to resist force... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 782 pages
...right in the judgment of " the whole family of man " in commencing hostilities against us. He says, " So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government." That is the power to make war against foreign nations, for the Government has no other war power. Planting... | |
 | jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 pages
...so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation." " Here," he says, " no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government." For what purpose must he call out this war power ? He answers, by saying, " and so to resist force... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 702 pages
...to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, Is there in all Republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" The President was severe upon Virginia and Virginians. He had made earnest effort to save the State... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? ' ' Must a government, of necessity,...own people or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " These questions presented the precise view of the case held by European statesmen, and they had... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? ' ' Must a government, of necessity,...own people or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " These questions presented the precise view of the case held by European statesmen, and they had... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 752 pages
...government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, Is there in all Republic» this inherent and fatal weaknessf Must a government of necessity be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" The President was severe upon Virginia and Virginians. He had made earnest effort to save the State... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask, ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness 2' ' Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...own people or too weak to maintain its own existence ?'" These questions presented the precise view of the case held by European statesmen, and they had... | |
 | Samuel Wylie Crawford - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) - 1887 - 554 pages
...by the same people, can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. Must a government of necessity be too strong for the...own people or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" APPENDIX IV. " STEAMSHIP Baltic, "Thursday, April 18, 1861. "GENERAL : " I have the honor to submit... | |
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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... 
