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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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True Republicanism; Or, The Real and Ideal in Politics

Frank Preston Stearns - 1904 - 276 pages
...subject, Lincoln said, however, of the revolution in Texas which preceded it : " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...most sacred right, — a right which, we hope and we believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people...
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True Republicanism: Or, The Real and Ideal in Politics

Frank Preston Stearns - 1904 - 296 pages
...subject, Lincoln said, however, of the revolution in Texas which preceded it: " 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 we believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined...
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The New Star Chamber: And Other Essays

Edgar Lee Masters - 1904 - 246 pages
...fugitive slave clause of the constitution. In 1848 Mr. Lincoln said in congress: "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 in which the whole people of an existing government may choose...
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Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession

Elbert William Robinson Ewing - 1904 - 398 pages
...which is paramount to all constitutions. While a member of Congress he said, "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government [or resist dangerous infractions of the fundamental agreement] and form a new one that suits them better....
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The History of North America, Volume 14

1905 - 762 pages
...House of Representatives, as reported in the Congressional Globe, Lincoln said : " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...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 this right confined...
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The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint

William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley - 1905 - 640 pages
...House of Representatives, as reported in the Congressional Globe, Lincoln said : " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...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 this right confined...
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Louisiana: A Record of Expansion

Albert Phelps - 1905 - 438 pages
...party, Abraham Lincoln, had declared some years before upon the floor of Congress, "Any people anywhere have the right to rise up and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better. . . . Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the...
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Louisiana: A Record of Expansion

Albert Phelps - 1905 - 428 pages
...party, Abraham Lincoln, had declared some years before upon the floor of Congress, "Any people anywhere have the right to rise up and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better. . . . Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the...
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A Students' History of the United States

Edward Channing - 1905 - 690 pages
...his later career. It was in 1847 that Lincoln declared : " Any people anywhere have the right to rjse up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. . . . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people . . . may choose to exercise it....
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: Ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley ..., Volume 2

Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 350 pages
...any treatyfixed 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 cases...
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