... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle... Eloquence of the United States - Página 811827Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1863 - 856 páginas
...sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped...revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided: and absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the mnjority —the vital principle of republics, from... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1862 - 440 páginas
...he could have foreseen that sixty years later his beloved Southerners, instead of adhering to that " absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics," would wholly set at nought " the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution,"... | |
| 1863 - 848 páginas
...sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which...revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided ; and absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republics,... | |
| J. H. Estcourt - 1863 - 36 páginas
...by the people.," and "absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principles of republics, from which there is no appeal but to...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." This force is now used by the slaveholders. It is also to be observed that the question of right to... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1865 - 468 páginas
...for they were the voice of the majority, which Jefferson called the vital principle of Republics, and from which there is no appeal but to force — the...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. Before risking such chances, cannot the South await the returning justice of the North? Unless disunion... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 páginas
...a mild and safe corrective of abuses, which are topped by the sword of revolution where peace able remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia, — our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 páginas
...President of the United States, he spoke of ' absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority,' as ' the vital principle of republics, from which there...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.' How different from the language of the fathers of the Constitution, who, in submitting that instrument... | |
| Ransom Hooker Gillet - 1868 - 492 páginas
...people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped off by the sword of revolution, when peaceable remedies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia — our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars... | |
| Ransom Hooker Gillet - 1868 - 452 páginas
...people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped off by the sword of revolution, when peaceable remedies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence...decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republies, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of... | |
| Ransom Hooker Gillet - 1868 - 502 páginas
...of abuses which are lopped off by the sword of revolution, when peaceable remedies are uuprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republies, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of... | |
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