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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. "
Southern Historical Society Papers - Page 56
by Southern Historical Society - 1897
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 132

1864 - 522 pages
...not suppose that the * Mr. Lincoln's precise words (as reported) were, that " any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...Government, and form a new one that suits them better ;" and that " any portion of such people, that can, may revolutienise and make their own of so much...
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Citizenship, Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - 1864 - 244 pages
...said : Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise Sp«teft. June up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better- c„ng. Globe,' This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe,...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1864 - 974 pages
...rise up to assert that right. " Any people, anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have a right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one tbat suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, — a right which we hope and...
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Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ...

Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 368 pages
...history. You said: "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to saiBe up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that auita tli-m better. NOT- to this right confined to casefj whero the people of an existing government...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States ...

Frank Crosby - 1865 - 498 pages
...any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War

Edward Alfred Pollard - 1865 - 454 pages
...ground of Self-Government : Abraham Lincoln, now President at Washington said : " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...Government, and form a new one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases where the people of an existing Government ard's diplomatic circular...
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Eight Years in Congress, from 1857-1865: Memoir and Speeches

Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1865 - 468 pages
...pamphlet : " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have a right to rise up and *hake off the existing Government and form a new one that suits them better." Mr. Cox. I may be allowed, before the Clerk reads any further, to call the attention of the distinguished...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope aud believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 782 pages
...considered dangerous in the present crisis of our national history. You said : ' Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...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...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 578 pages
...treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere, beiug inclined and having the power, have the right to rise...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Thie is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right. which, we hope and believe, is to liberate...
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