 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask, 'Is there 'in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?' 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to mamtain its own existence ? ' " The attempt of some of the border states to maintain a sort of armed... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...up the government. It forces us to ask, " Is there in all republics an inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Under these circumstances, the government was compelled to resist the force employed for its destruction... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...the government. It forces us to ask," Is there in all republics an inherent and fatal weakness ?" " Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" e government \ . , „ i ~i f> • , Under these circumstances, the government was compelled to... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 744 pages
...Is there, in all Republics, this inherent and fatal weakness ?' " Must a Government of necessity bo too strong for the liberties of its own people, or...the •war power of the Government, and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. * * " Again, if one State may secede,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask, ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war-power of the Government, and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation."... | |
 | 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
...the earth. It forces us to ask : ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? ' " Must a government of necessity be too strong for the...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
...which could not exist. This is the ground upon which the rectitude of his cause was placed. He says, " No choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation." " Here," he says, " no choice was... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 786 pages
...which could not exist. This is the ground upon which the rectitude of his cause was placed. He says, " No choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation." " Here," he says, " no choice was... | |
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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? 
