 This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.  A patriotic primer for the little citizen ... - Page 42by Wallace Foster - 1898 - 113 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 pages
...you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. " This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 568 pages
...with a concluding rally that was a bugle-call to the lovers of right. " Let us have faith," said he, " that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the eud dare to do our duty as we understand it." A few months later, this champion of the Right, who would... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...and prevent renewed secession ? Plainly, tho central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. " This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...uuue. The Constitution and the People.— Lincoln. [From the Inaugural Address, March 4th, 1861.] 1. THIS country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right... | |
 | 1880 - 698 pages
...either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith, that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to tlie end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ADDRESS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO THE CITIZENS OF SPRINGFIELD,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1882 - 582 pages
...either, you cease fighting, the identical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1882 - 680 pages
...either, you cease fighting, the indentical old questions, as to terme of intercourse, are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government they can exercise their constitutional right... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1884 - 430 pages
...either you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1884 - 264 pages
...either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. "Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional... | |
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