 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 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...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence I" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask : c Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?' 4 Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?' u So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government ; and... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...weakness ?" " Must a Government of necessity be too »irony for the liberties of its own people, or t >o weak to maintain its own existence ?" So viewing the...issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power pf the Government ; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.... | |
 | George Ware Briggs - 1865 - 62 pages
...that all men are created equal, can long endure." "Must a government," he perpetually asked himself, " be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" He summoned the slumbering war powers of the Constitution to defend its existence, and establish its... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...npbn the earth. It forces us to ask : ' Is there in nil republics this inherent and fatal weakness?' 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too ucalc to maintain its own existence?' " So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out tho... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to asft: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" t? One party to a contract may violate it — break 0 X ֻ v"G Kfik to maintain its own existence ?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call ont the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...upon the earth. Tt forces MS 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."... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 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...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" The attempt of some of the border states to maintain a sort of armed neutrality — as illustrated... | |
 | National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches - 1866 - 888 pages
...church which Abraham Lincoln formulated so accurately for a free state. "The question is," he said, "must a government of necessity be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" We regard this as substantially the interesting question of our present Conference, and of all our... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask, 4 Is. there in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?' 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " The attempt of some of the border states to maintain a sort of armed neutrality— as illustrated... | |
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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? 
