 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild aud safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are uuprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics,... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 526 pages
...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...well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abases which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are nnprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics,... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...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 - Kansas - 1862 - 440 pages
...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,"... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...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 majority — the vital principle of republics,... | |
 | J. H. Estcourt - United States - 1863 - 36 pages
...acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principles of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force — the 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 - African-American soldiers - 1865 - 468 pages
...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 - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...a mild and safe corrective of abuses, which are topped by the sword of revolution where peace able remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in...majority, — the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined... | |
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Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the 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 by the sword of revolution where... 
