 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional. . . . . . A disruption of the federal Union, heretofore only...menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the union of these states is perpetual.... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of Government. They have conducted it through many perils,...hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...fifteen different and very distingnished citizens have in succession administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. " I bold that, in contemplation of universal law Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural Address. and of the Constitution,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through...generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens, have, in succes'ion, administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...many perils; and, generally, with great success. Yet, w'th all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. " A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. " A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of government. They have conducted it through many perils,...the brief constitutional term of four years, under grave and peculiar difficulties. menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation... | |
 | Cae S. - Slavery - 1863 - 96 pages
...Nevertheless, they may be said to have asked leave ; the inaugural address, above alluded to, confessing that " a disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted" Those menaces, or warnings, on the part of the slaveholding States, that they would secede from the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed,... | |
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It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the Government. They... 
