 | Frank H. Alfriend - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 674 pages
...not be deemed conclusive. In 1848, Mr. Lincoln said : " Any people whatever have the right to abolish the existing government, and form a new one that suits...better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right." A brave affirmation was this of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, that " Governments derive... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1872 - 772 pages
...course of which he had said : — Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have a right to rise up and shake off the existing government,...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionise, and make their own,... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...revolution. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the .••.•"•;/.•.' to rise up and shake off the existing government,...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own... | |
 | James Laird Vallandigham - History - 1872 - 620 pages
...12th, 1848, Abraham Lincoln uses the following language : — "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...shake off the existing Government, and form a new one'that suits them better. This is a most valuable and a most sacred right — a right which MC hope... | |
 | John M. Washburn - Peace - 1873 - 482 pages
...self-government unimpaired to all parts of the people — leaving the right in " any people, anywhere, to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better." And if the contract of government was made with the understanding that the axioms of liberty should... | |
 | Mary Allan-Olney - Virginia - 1880 - 318 pages
...period of his public life, made this remarkable declaration : ' Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...Government, and form a new one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases where the people of an existing Government may choose to exercise... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - United States - 1886 - 934 pages
...form a new one that suits them better. This ia a most valuable, sacred right — a right which, we believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...could not deny. (Speech on the Mexican War, January 12, 1848.) Any people, anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have the right to rise up and...which we hope, and believe, is to liberate the world. (Same speech.) It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws ; but to break up... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1888 - 478 pages
...House of Representatives on the I2th of January, 1848. He said : "Any people, anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have the right to rise up and...that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a sacred right ; a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. " Nor is it confined to... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1889 - 458 pages
...attaching by the conquest on the rights of revolution. He said : "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...government and form a new one that suits them better. " Tliis is a most valuable and most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate... | |
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe,... 
