 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...the Union." Lincoln in his inaugural said of the lawfulness of secession, " The question at issue is whether a Constitutional Republic or Democracy, a...people, can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." The abolitionists took side with Greeley. Phillips said, '' Here are... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 794 pages
...country the distinct issue, "Immediate dissolution or blood." And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...the question whether a constitutional republic, or democracy—a government of the people by the same people—can or can not maintain its territorial... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1150 pages
...the president rehearsed the acts of resistance, and said : " This issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...— can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." Some opposition was made in congress by members who thought it unconstitutional... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...country the distinct issue, "immediate dissolution or blood." And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...— can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. It presents the question whether discontented individuals, too few in... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...executed in all the States. And this issue embraces more than the fate of the United States. It represents to the whole family of man the question whether a...— can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" Must a... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 1040 pages
...country the distinct issue, "Immediate dissolution or blood." And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...— can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. It presents the question whether discontented individuals, too few in... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...done, again showing how the South had forced the issue. "And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...of the people, by the same people — can or cannot retain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." He spoke with satisfaction of the... | |
 | Eric Foner, Olivia Mahoney - History - 1990 - 212 pages
...of Northern society. At the outset he described the war as a struggle of worldwide significance that "presents to the whole family of man. the question. whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy" could survive. He drew upon the familiar free labor ideology to argue that only Union... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...base required to give it validity. The true issue, he said, was not selfdetermination but whether "a democracy — a government of the people, by the same...can, or cannot, maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes."30 Lincoln was equally adamant in rejecting any compromise that involved... | |
 | William Hanchett - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 172 pages
...republican government. The struggle with the South, he told Congress in a special message on July 4, 1861, "presents to the whole family of man the question...can, or cannot, maintain its territorial integrity, against its own domestic foes. It presents the question, whether discontented individuals, too few... | |
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And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial... 
