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" Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of... "
President Lincoln; Self-pourtrayed - Page 36
by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 239 pages
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The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion

Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...States to compose a new Union, as toprodnce harmony only, and prevent renewed lecess'ton ? Plainly, tbe central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in reItraint by constitutional checks and limitations «nil alwajs changing easily with deliberate changes...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...secession is the essence of anarchy. "A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes...permanent arrangement, is •wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left....
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On Democracy

J. Arthur Partridge - Democracy - 1866 - 446 pages
...cowardly, and can never produce aught but feeble men and pusillanimous nations."—De Tocquemile. " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks...changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments, is the only true sovereignty of a free people."—-Lincoln. " Every man who...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...is the essence of anarchy. •" A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of %free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is...
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KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY;

1866 - 278 pages
...among the States to compose a new Union as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession ? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence...anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily •with deliberate changes of popular opinions and...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...secession is the essence of anarchy. "A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of ft free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is...
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Key-notes of American Liberty: Comprising the Most Important Speeches ...

Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...among the States to compose a new Union as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession 1 Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence...anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily •with deliberate changes of popular opinions and...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...among the etates to compose a new Union as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession ? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence...anarchy. " A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,...
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services

Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...among the States to compose a new Union as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence...anarchy. " A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,...
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The Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in ...

J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments, is the only true sovereignty of a free People. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or despotism/'— Inaugural. " Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two points...
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