 | William Hanchett - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 172 pages
...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...discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control . . . according to organic law . . . can . . . break up their Government, and thus practically put... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...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... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1996 - 273 pages
...for today," Lincoln told Congress. "It is for a vast future also." It "embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy . . . can, or cannot maintain its territorial integrity." If it could not, the forces of... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...idealists, the masses, the underprivileged — people he understood. The American Civil War, he said, "presents to the whole family of man the question...discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration according to organic law in any case, can always, upon the pretenses made in this case,... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - History - 1997 - 180 pages
...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"... | |
 | Frederick L. Will - Philosophy - 1997 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...of questions, which I can frame no better than Lincoln: [T]his issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family...the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy— a government of the people, by the same people —can, or cannot, maintain its territorial... | |
 | Ida M. Tarbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 572 pages
...Union, and thus force it to immediate dissolution. . 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 integrity... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...dissatisfied citizens who needed reformation. 4 JULY 1861 This issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man, the question whether a democracy—a government of the people, by the same people—can, or can not, maintain it's territorial... | |
 | Howard Jones - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...1861, he told Congress that the struggle was "not altogether for today. It is for a vast future," for 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... | |
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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... 
