 | Joseph Holt - Kentucky - 1861 - 70 pages
...the Union. The compromises in the Constitution, under the then circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers, but under the altered condition of our country...dissolution; for no amendments to the Constitution could be reached through a Convention of the people and their three-fourths rule." I laughed incredulously,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...under the then circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers, but, under the altered condition of the country from that period, leave to the South no resource...dissolution; for no amendments to the Constitution could be reached through a Convention of the people and their threc-fourths role.' " L part of the... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...of the Union. The compromises of the Constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers; but, under the altered condition of our country,...convention of the people, under their threefourths rule." This frank avowal of Mr. Calhoun has been the constant sentiment of the South, from that day to this.... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...OP THE UNION. The compromises of the Constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers • but, under the altered condition of our...DISSOLUTION ; for no amendments to the Constitution con d be reached through a convention of the people under the three-fourths rule." It is upon the evidence... | |
 | James Parton - African Americans - 1864 - 654 pages
...of the Union. The compromises in the constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers, but under the altered condition of our country...can take place, you and I will have been so long non est, that we can now laugh at its possibility, and leave it with complacency to our children's children,... | |
 | Charles Daniel Drake - Enslaved persons - 1864 - 446 pages
...The compromises of the Constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers; hut, under the altered condition of our country from that...DISSOLUTION : for no amendments to the Constitution could be reached through a convention of the people under the three-fourths rule." It is upon the evidence... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 686 pages
...of the Union. The compromises in the Constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers, but, under the altered condition of our country...dissolution ; for no amendments to the Constitution could be reached through a convention of the people under their three-fourths rule." Probably all of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...dissolution of the Union. The compromises of the Constitution, under the circumstances, t nJMent for our fathers ; but under the altered condition of our country, from that period, tears eSovth no resource but dissolution." H. Hammond (son of a New England schoolmaster, and an extensive... | |
 | James Parton - United States - 1867 - 484 pages
...of the "Union. The compromises in the Constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers, but, under the altered condition of our country...dissolution ; for no amendments to the Constitution could be reached through a convention of the people under their three-fourths rule." Probably all of... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 496 pages
...of the Union. The compromises in the Constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers, but, under the altered condition of our country...dissolution ; for no amendments to the Constitution could be reached through a convention of the people under their three-fourths rule." Probably all of... | |
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... to control this nation through a disjointed democracy, or any material obstacle in that party which shall tend to throw us out of that rule and control, we shall then resort to the dissolution of the Union. The compromises in the Constitution, under... 
