 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...issue," the message proceeds, " embraces more than the fntc of these United States. It presents to tlre whole family of man the question whether a constitutional...discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration according to organic law in any case, can always, upon the pretences made in this case,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...the country the distinct issue, 'immediate dissolution or blood.' And this issue embraces more than these United States. It presents to the whole family...government of the people by the same people — can or can not maintain its territori:il integrity against its own domestic foes. It presents the question,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...upon the country the distinct issue — " immediate dissolution of the Union or blood." This issue presents the question whether discontented individuals,...numbers to control the administration according to law, may, upon pretenses made, arbitrarily or not at all, break up the government. It forces us to... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...issue—" immediate dissolution of the Union or blood." That they had made ~ , „ .. . . This issue presents the question whether discontented individuals,...numbers to control the administration according to law, may, upon pretenses made arbitrarily or not at all, break up the government. It forces us to ask,"... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 698 pages
...distinct issue — ' Immediate dissolution or blood.' " And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...question whether discontented individuals, too few iu numbers to control administration according to organic law in any case, can. always upon the pretenses... | |
 | R. Guy M'Clellan - United States - 1875 - 716 pages
...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 family...discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration according to organic law in any case, can always, upon the pretences made in this case... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
