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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gov. Letcher's Message. (search)
duce, in this connection, an extract from a speech made by Mr. Lincoln in the House of Representatives the 12th day of January, 1848,peculiarly striking, and exactly suited to the existing condition of the country. "Any people, any where, being inclined, and having the power, have a 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 watch we hope and believe is to like rate the world. Mar. in the right to ing 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 intermingle with, or near about them, who may oppose their moments, -- Such minority was precisely the case of the Tories of our own revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by oldLines. or old laxs; but