 | William Vincent Wells - United States - 1865 - 562 pages
...already called, so closely as it was necessary for me, before I should venture an opinion. I confess, as I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....give the preference to the former before the latter. If the several States in the Union are to become one entire nation under one Legislature, the powers... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 496 pages
...this subject let us hear Samuel Adams for a moment as he wrote to a friend in 1788 : — " I confess, as I enter the building I stumble at the threshold....give the preference to the former before the latter. If the several States in the Union are to be one entire nation under one legislature, the powers of... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...being indicated by the following extract from a letter to Richard Henry Lee, dated December 3, 1787 : "I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government, instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 532 pages
...town meetings and general court, that he was startled when, on entering the new " building, he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states ; " but, in direct antagonism to George Mason and Richard Henry Lee, he had always approved granting... | |
 | George Fitch - Political parties - 1883 - 276 pages
...new Constitution a reluctant support, used this language in a letter to a friend : " I confess, aj I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....national government instead of a federal union of the States. If the several States of the Union are to be one entire nation, under one legislature,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...its townmeetings and general court, that he was startled when, on entering the new " building, he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states;" but, in direct antagonism to George Mason and Richard Henry Lee, he had always approved granting to... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1891 - 508 pages
...figure of revolutionary times, in a letter to Richard Henry Lee, of December 3, 1787, has said : — I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1891 - 502 pages
...figure of revolutionary times, in a letter to Richard Henry Lee, of December 3, 1787, has said: — I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 616 pages
...its townmeetings and general court, that he was startled when, on entering the new " building, he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states ; " but, in direct antagonism to George Mason and Richard Henry Lee, he had always approved granting... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - History - 1904 - 562 pages
...confederation. " "I stumble at the threshold, ' ' said Samuel Adams, on first reading the document. "I meet with a national government, instead of a federal union of sovereign States." Said a member of the first North Carolina Convention, "I am astonished that the servants of the Legislature... | |
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I confess, as I enter the Building I stumble at the Threshold. I meet with a National Government, instead of a Federal Union of Sovereign States. 
