...was a blunt assertion of the absolute right of physical force in the world, of the good old principle that those shall take who have the power and those shall keep who can. Against this act, and its primitive philosophy, the people most directly concerned issued a flaming...

...was a blunt assertion of the absolute right of physical force in the world, of the good old principle that those shall take who have the power and those shall keep who can. Against this act, and its primitive philosophy, the people most directly concerned issued a flaming...

...of government must necessarily con165 cede this right to others, or else adopt the principle : — " That those shall take who have the power, And those shall keep who can." The confusion of mind in this direction is lamentably illustrated by the case of Ireland. The South...

...favored few, so long will the law of tooth and claw prevail, so long will obtain the "good old rule" "that those shall take who have the power and those shall keep who can." Some day, perhaps, we shall have a more human, sensible and efficient system, but until that day comes...

...days of the early emigrants. " For why ? Because the good old rule Sufficed for them, the simple plan, That those shall take, who have the power, And those shall keep, who can." Yet we believe the days will come, when the people of every State in the Union will be proud to treasure...

...others ? Have we not both, practically if not avowedly, acted upon the universally-maligned axiom of 'Those shall take who have the power, And those shall keep who can ?' " " You are an oddity, Brnnton." " Because I look the truth boldly in the face, and confess that...