 ... 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...  The Southern Review - Page 71871Full view - About this book
 | William Archer Cocke - 1858 - 444 pages
...the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 pages
...safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies nre unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions...of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia — our beat reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 558 pages
...the people ; a mild aud safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...where peaceable remedies are unprovided: and absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the mnjority —the vital principle of republics, from which there...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. "But, sir, Mr. Preston, the South Carolina commissioner, to whom I have already referred, delivered... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 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,"... | |
 | 1863 - 848 pages
...of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided ; and absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. " But, sir, Mr. Preston, the South Carolina commissioner, to whom I have already referred, delivered... | |
 | J. H. Estcourt - 1863 - 36 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - 1868 - 452 pages
...of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped off by the sword of revolution, when peaceable remedies...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 pages
...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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