 ... rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the...  The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63 - Page 298edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1961 - 980 pages
...portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the teritory [sic] as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any...intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the tories of our own revolution. It is a quality... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1971 - 408 pages
...portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their oion, of so much of the teritory [sic] as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any...intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the tories of our own revolution. It is a quality... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1911 - 384 pages
...exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority...or near about them who may oppose their movements." And the Chief Justice knew that what Mr. Lincoln here says was, in effect, what the people of the South... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the teritory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any...intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the tories of our own revolution. It is a quality... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much territory as they may inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion...intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority was precisely the case of the Tories of our own Revolution. It is a quality... | |
 | David Gordon - Business & Economics - 362 pages
...1848: "Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority...near about them, who may oppose their movements." Quoted in Alexander H. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the War Between the States (Philadelphia:... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...movement would not have unanimous support in any given region. But unanimous support was not needed: a "majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize,...intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement." As Lincoln explained, "Such minority, was precisely the case, of the tories of our own revolution."33... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...and form a new one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases where the people of on existing government may choose to exercise it. Any...your opinions, and you had a constitutional right to declire them. If a citizen now should utter sentiments far less dangerous in their tendency, your nearest... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority...intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the tories of our own revolution. It is the quality... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority...or near about them, who may oppose their movements. Such minority was precisely the case of the Tories of our own Revolution. It is a quality of revolutions... | |
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