 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...immediate dissolution or blood. " And this issue," the message proceeds, " embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...democracy — a government of the people by the same peoplecan or cannot maintain its territorial integrity, against its own domestic foes. It presents... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...issue," the message proceeds, " embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to tlre whole family of man the question whether a constitutional...can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity, against its own domestic foes. It presents the question whether discontented individuals, too few in... | |
 | R. Guy M'Clellan - United States - 1875 - 716 pages
...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 cannot maintain its territorial... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...distinct issue, ' immediate dissolution or blood.' " This issue, he said, embraced more than " the fate of these United States ; it presents to the whole...— can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. It presents the question whether discontented individuals, too few in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 892 pages
...congress the president rehearsed the acts of rebellion, and said: " This issue embraces more than the fate of these United States It presents to the whole family...or democracy — a government of the people by the samo people — can or cannot maintain ils territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." Some... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 786 pages
...1861, resorted to the artifice of saying, " It [meaning the proceedings of the Confederate States] presents to the whole family of man the question whether...government of the people by the same people — can, or can not, maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes ? " The answer to this question... | |
 | jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 pages
...1861, resorted to the artifice of saying, " It [meaning the proceedings of the Confederate States] presents to the whole family of man the question whether...government of the people by the same people — can, or can not, maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes ? " The answer to this question... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 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 lew in... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...in the conflict thus ruthlessly precipitated. It said : " 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... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...in the conflict thus ruthlessly precipitated. It said : "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... | |
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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... 
