...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...

...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 people — can, or cannot, maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes."30 Lincoln was equally adamant...

...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...government of the people by the same people — can, or cannot, maintain its territorial integrity, against its own domestic foes. It presents the question,...

...States. Anticipating a phrase he would use two years later in the Gettysburg Address, he suggested, "It presents to the whole family of man, the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy — a government of the people, by the same people — can, or cannot, maintain its territorial...

...was this struggle "altogether for today," Lincoln told Congress. "It is for a vast future also." It "embraces more than the fate of these United States....the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy . . . can, or cannot maintain its territorial integrity." If it could not, the forces of...

...idealists, the masses, the underprivileged — people he understood. The American Civil War, he said, "presents to the whole family of man the question...government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. It presents the question whether...

...original Union had been the progeny of the Declaration: "This issue embraces more than the fate of the United States .... It presents to the whole family...the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy . . . can, or cannot, maintain its territorial integrity" (Lincoln IV, 439, 438). The "integrity"...

...were to become more familiar after Gettysburg, he said, 'The issue embraces more than the fate of the United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether ... a government of the people, by the same people, can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against...

...fourth, is an oft-quoted series of questions, which I can frame no better than Lincoln: [T]his issue embraces more than the fate of these United States....the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy— a government of the people, by the same people —can, or cannot, maintain its territorial...

...visible authority of the Federal Union, and thus force it to immediate dissolution. . And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States....the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy-a government of the people by the same people-can or can not maintain its territorial integrity...