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May 15, 1861
The Jasper Weekly Courier
Jasper, Dubois County, Indiana
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Extract from Abraham Lincoln's January 12, 1848, speech in the U.S. House of Representatives, arguing that any people or portion thereof have the right to revolt, shake off government, and form a new one, even against a minority opposition, as exemplified by the Tories in the American Revolution.
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MR. Lincoln on Secession and Revolution
-in the house of Representatives, on the 12th of January, 1848, Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois made a speech, from which the following extract is taken. It will be found in the Appendix to the Congressional Globe for the first session of the Thirtieth Congress, page 94:
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing Government, and form a new one that suits them better. 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 the case in which the whole people of an existing Government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose their movements.— Such minority was precisely the case of the tories of our own revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
-in the house of Representatives, on the 12th of January, 1848, Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois made a speech, from which the following extract is taken. It will be found in the Appendix to the Congressional Globe for the first session of the Thirtieth Congress, page 94:
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing Government, and form a new one that suits them better. 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 the case in which the whole people of an existing Government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose their movements.— Such minority was precisely the case of the tories of our own revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
Biography
What themes does it cover?
Justice
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Lincoln Speech
Right To Revolution
Secession
American Revolution
Tories
Congressional Globe
What entities or persons were involved?
Abraham Lincoln
Tories
Where did it happen?
House Of Representatives
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Abraham Lincoln
Tories
Location
House Of Representatives
Event Date
12th Of January, 1848
Story Details
Lincoln asserts the right of any people or portion to revolt against government and form a new one, even suppressing opposing minorities, as in the case of the Tories during the American Revolution.