...discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration, . . . can . . . break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to free...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"'' 2 * Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address," supra note 26, at 264-265. 2 "Id. '"Id., at 270, 271. " Lincoln,...

...give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. 6352 of Judgement Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness There people or too weak to maintain its own existence? 6353 With high hope for the future, no prediction...

...made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to free...government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of it's own people, or too weak to maintain it's own existence?" So viewing the issue, the administration...

..."liberty" meant. In his 1941 Jackson Day address he quoted Lincoln's question to Congress in 1861: " 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?' " "Lincoln answered that question as Jackson had answered it — not by words, but by deeds," Roosevelt...

...Southern states puts this very possibility into question, as though such "a government of necessity [must] be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence." Whitman takes up these matters of political theory in his tract "The 18th Presidency!" which opens:...

...same people." Could a group of rebels insufficient in number to control the government "break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth"? "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity,...

.... . . can . . . break up their Government, and thns practically put an end to free government upon earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"6l After a lengthy discussion of the constitutional issue of secession, Lincoln returned...

...naming Madison, quoted him on the possibility of an "inherent and fatal weakness" in all republics. "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" The secession crisis dramatized the failure of the Enlightenment to come forth with knowledge as an...

...made in this case, or on any other pretenses, or arbitrarily, without any pretense, break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. Lincoln then poses the question with which we began this volume: "Is there, in all republics, this...

...obvious when the president, at the height of his confrontation with the Peace Democratic press, said: Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Must l shoot a simple-minded boy who deserts, while...