. The writings of Abraham Lincoln. ition and armingive been much , conte h such di~ tone of public £ there is much im- ed. At home tl:fully I denoun and 1 bear Abraham Lincolnsuspend \mation, a copy of which is herewith transmitted. Onexamination of this proclamation it will appear, as is be attempted beyondition. True, auth this includes fully Wished b\ It is also- prof] e States named a State g be mode all be recog- ??1 and guaranteed aes, and that : State shall, Qi .institutional. Abraham Lincoln 53 conditions, be protected against invasion and domes-tic violence. The constitutio
. The writings of Abraham Lincoln. ition and armingive been much , conte h such di~ tone of public £ there is much im- ed. At home tl:fully I denoun and 1 bear Abraham Lincolnsuspend \mation, a copy of which is herewith transmitted. Onexamination of this proclamation it will appear, as is be attempted beyondition. True, auth this includes fully Wished b\ It is also- prof] e States named a State g be mode all be recog- ??1 and guaranteed aes, and that : State shall, Qi .institutional. Abraham Lincoln 53 conditions, be protected against invasion and domes-tic violence. The constitutional obligation of theUnited States to guarantee to every State in theUnion a republican form of government and toprotect the State in the cases stated is explicit andfull. But why tender the benefits of this provisiononly to a State government set up in this particularway? This section of the Constitution contemplatesa case wherein the element within a State favorableto republican government in the Union may be toofeeble for an opposite and hostile element external toor even within the State, and such are precisely thecases with which we are now dealing. An attempt to guarantee and protect a revivedState government, constructed in whole or in pre-ponderating part from the very element againstwhose hostility and violence it is to be protected,is simply absurd. There must be a test by which toseparate the opposing elements, so as to build onlyfrom the sound; and that test is a sufficientl
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