...where peaceable remedies are unprovided: and absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the mnjority —the vital principle of republics, from which there...referred, delivered a very different message to us lost spring, in the Virginia convention. lie declared to us: In the Free States, the simple, isolated,...

...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,"...

...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...

...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...

...corrective of abuses, which are topped by the sword of revolution where peace able remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority,...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia, — our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till...

...President of the United States, he spoke of ' absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority,' as ' the vital principle of republics, from which there...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.' How different from the language of the fathers of the Constitution, who, in submitting that instrument...

...of abuses which are lopped off by the sword of revolution, when peaceable remedies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia — our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till...

...unprovided ; 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 despotism ; a well-disciplined militia — our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till...

...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...

...by tho sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies arc unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in tho decisions of the majority, the vital principle of...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, oar beat reliance in peace and forthe first momenta of dened ; the honest...