 ... 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 american annual cyclopaedia - Page 2921863Full view - About this book
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 732 pages
...where peaceable remedies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority— the vital principle of republics, from which there...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia—our best reliance in peace and for the first momenta of war, till regulars... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...where peaceable remedies are unprovided — absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which there...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... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 pages
...absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the 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 militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Kansas - 1862 - 440 pages
...our peace at home and safety abroad. . . . absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which there...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." . . . You must consider this address as being the triumphant manifesto of the so-called Republican... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...peaceable remedies are unprovided ; and absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republics, from which there...referred, delivered a very different message to us last spring, in the Virginia convention. He declared to us : In the Free States, the simple, isolated,... | |
 | J. H. Estcourt - United States - 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 - African-American soldiers - 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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...where peace able remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, — the vital principle of republics, from which there...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia, — our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 450 pages
...when peaceable remedies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republics, from which there...vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well-disciplined militia — our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till... | |
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