 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 818 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal...out the war power of the Government and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. The call was made, and the response... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? It might seem, at first thought, to be of little difference whether the present movement at the South... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 1040 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask : "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness f " " Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...the war power of the Government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. The call was made, and the response... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 106 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language : " Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the great... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? It might seem, at first thought, to be of little difference whether the present movement at the South... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...same people — can or can not maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. . . . So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...the war power of the government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. This was not Mr. Lincoln's view... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...same people — can or can not maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. . . . So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...the war power of the government ; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. This was not Mr. Lincoln's view... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...on the earth. It forces iis to ask, Is there in all Republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties...the war power of the Government; and so, to resist force employed for its destruction by force employed for its preservation. . . ." Having reached this... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1901 - 264 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, ' Is there in all republics this inherent and...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " Lincoln was only enforcing here just such ideas of self-government as, during all his life, he... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 760 pages
...government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It compelled the question: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Viewing the issue in this light, the President had no choice but to call out the war power of the... | |
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 
