 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 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,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " Congress, which is the soul of the people, could not be silent on the question of slavery. It... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 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...liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain ite own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government;... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 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,...issue, no choice was left but to call out the war powe* of the Government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, \ar force for its preservation.... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 142 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language : " Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republies this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 130 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language : " Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republies this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 pages
...end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all Republics this inherent fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? " The Constitution of the Confederacy was a paraphrase with convenient adaptations of the Constitution... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - Christian socialism - 1893 - 412 pages
...requisite. Lincoln's question means far more now than when he uttered it: "Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " One important matter here is the simple size of... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - Christian socialism - 1893 - 406 pages
...requisite. Lincoln's question means far more now than when he uttered it: "Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " One important matter here is the simple size... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 pages
...integrity against its domestic foes. . . 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 ?' " • MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, DECEMBER, 1862. " A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 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,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " It will be noticed that in this message, as shown by the above extract, Lincoln was only enforcing... | |
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