 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897
...elections is liable to be impaired by the intrusion of unlawful votes or the exclusion of lawful oues, by improper influences, by violence, or by fraud....demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the right of self -constitution exists in the completes! form, the attempt to remedy unwise legislation by resort... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897
...United States are themselves the allsufficient guardians of their own rights, and to suppose that thc3' will not remedy in due season any such incidents of...demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the right of self -constitution exists in the compietesi forni, the attempt to remedy unwise legislation by resort... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1908
...insurrectionary character or of obstruction to process of law, has been repelled or suppressed by all the means which the Constitution and the laws place in...demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the right of self -constitution exists in the completest form, the attempt to remedy unwise legislation by resort... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897
...where, by reason of the inflamed state of the public mind, false rumors and misrepresentations ha%-e the greatest currency it has been assumed that it...excitement the occasional incidents of even the freest and liest political institutions; but all experience demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1857
...liable to be impaired by the intrusion of unlawful votes, or the exclusion of lawful .in.'-:, by impropv influences, by violence, or by fraud. But the people...where the right of self-constitution exists in the completes! form, the attempt to remedy unwise legislation by resort to revolution is totally out oT... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1865
...of The United States has not power to interpose in elec. tions, to see to their freedom, to cuiivass their votes, or to pass upon their legality in the...the freest and best political institutions. But all eiperience demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the right of self-constitution exists in... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1882
...ceased to be capable of self-government. The President of the United States has not power to interfere in elections, to see to their freedom, to canvass...dearest rights of the people of the United States." The suppression of the internecine war in Kansas was the last act of President Pierce's administration... | |
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But the people of the United States are themselves the allsufficient guardians of their own rights, and to suppose that they will not remedy in due season any such incidents of civil freedom is to suppose them to have ceased to be capable of self-government.... 
