...now. [Laughter.] I want to ask him whether he approves of the doctrine. The Clerk read as follows : " This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right...which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing Government may choose...

...pamphlet : " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have a right to rise up and *hake off the existing Government and form a new one that suits them better." Mr. Cox. I may be allowed, before the Clerk reads any further, to call the attention of the distinguished...

...region depended not on any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope aud believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people...

...which may well be considered dangerous in the present crisis of our national history. You said : ' Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases where the people of an existing government may choose to exercise...

...treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere, beiug inclined and having the power, have the right to rise...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Thie is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right. which, we hope and believe, is to liberate...

...and having the power, have the riyht to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form anew one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,...which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose...

...and having the power, have the riyltt to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form anew one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,...which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose...

...every other American citizen, publicly declared, that "any people whatever have the right to abolish the existing government, and form a new one that suits...better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right." Yes, any people whatever; -the thirteen British Colonies; the Greeks; the States of South America;...

...President-elect, Mr. Lincoln, had, at another period of his public life, made this remarkable declaration : " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake direct conflict with those rights of man which we hold paramount to all political arrangements, however...

...ground of Self-Government : Abraham Lincoln, now President at Washington said : " Any people, aoy where, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and flinko off the existing Government, and form a new one that suits them better Nor is this right confined...