... 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 Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson - Pàgina 254per Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 400 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 526 pàgines
...sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are uuprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics,...which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle aud immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for... | |
| Ezra B. Chase - 1861 - 514 pàgines
...sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are nnprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics,...may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over tho military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest... | |
| 1863 - 856 pàgines
...acquiescence in the decisions of the mnjority —the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the 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 pàgines
...absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." . . . You must consider this address as being the triumphant manifesto of the so-called Republican... | |
| 1863 - 848 pàgines
...acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the 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 pàgines
...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 - 1865 - 468 pàgines
...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... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 pàgines
...acquiescence in the decisions of the majority,' as ' the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.' How different from the language of the fathers of the Constitution, who, in submitting that instrument... | |
| 1869 - 826 pàgines
...absolute acquiescence in tho decisions of the 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 militia, oar beat reliance in peace and forthe first momenta of dened ; the honest payment of our debts, and... | |
| 1871 - 800 pàgines
...absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and...best reliance in peace, and for the first moments in war, until regulars can relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy... | |
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