 | United States. President - 1897 - 794 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 can not maintain its territorial... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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...discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration according to the organic law in any case, can always, upon the pretenses made in this... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1152 pages
...president rehearsed the acts of resistance, and said : " This issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." Some opposition was made in congress by members who thought it unconstitutional to " coerce a sovereign... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...executed in all the States. And this issue embraces more than the fate of the United States. It represents to the whole family of man the question whether a...territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" Must a government of necessity be too... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 1040 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...discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration, according to organic law, in any case, can always, upon the pretenses made in this... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...accepting the ordeal of arms for its preservation. The issue of Fort Sumter, observed the Executive, "presents to the whole family of man the question,...territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." After defending his course in this inevitable emergency, " it is now recommended," he continued, "... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...done, again showing how the South had forced the issue. " And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...of the people, by the same people — can or cannot retain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." He spoke with satisfaction of the... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...done, again showing how the South had forced the issue. "And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...of the people, by the same people — can or cannot retain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." He spoke with satisfaction of the... | |
 | Eric Foner, Olivia Mahoney - History - 1990 - 212 pages
...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... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...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...its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes."30 Lincoln was equally adamant in rejecting any compromise that involved a retreat from the platform... | |
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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... 
