 | 1865 - 810 pages
...publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did not understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and...of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...declared this many times and in many ways ; and I aver, that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and...of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? 9 By general law, life and limb... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...publicly declared this many times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and...of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government—that nation—of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official but eight days' provisions at hand, and these in...capricious river between him and his depots, and who has thut Government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and...ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every 21 indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and...ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every 21 indispousable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...many ways. And I bvcr that, to thta day, I have done no official act In mere deference to m> atBtract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand,...the best of my ability, Imposed upon me the duty of prc*CTT* ing, by every indispensable moans, that Government — that nation, of which that Constitution... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...declared this many times, and in niiMiy ways.' And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and...of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must... | |
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I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. 
