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" I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest... "
Journal: 1st-13th Congress. Repr. . 14th Congress, 1st Session-50th Congress ... - Page 400
by United States. Congress. Senate - 1861
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...given in full here ; a few passages will serve to evince, in part at least, its spirit and purpose. " I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will sensibilities of many friends, who would have much preferred to form an escort of 100,000 armed men...
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Das Staatsarchiv, Volume 1

History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?" ^f I take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations,...Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while 1 do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress us proper to be enforced, I do suggest that...
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Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der officiellen Actenstücke zur ..., Volume 1

Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?" ^f 1 take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations,...Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while 1 do not choose now to .specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be -''forced, I do suggest...
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Annual Register, Volume 103

Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...Constitution which guarantees that ' the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States? " I...•with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws hy any hypercritical rules ; and, while I do not choose now to specify particular Acts of Congress...
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The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a ..., Volume 1

United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...Constitution which guarantees that the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States ? I take...with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to control the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and, while I do not choose now to specify...
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The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University ..., Volume 8

Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause — as cheerfully to one section as to another. ... I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. . . . I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States...
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The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ...

Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...Constitution which guaranties that " the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States ?" I...as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will tie much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those...
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Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the ...

David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 208 pages
...that this oath shall go unkept on a merely un 'ubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept? " I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules ; and while J do not choose now to specify particular a6ts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?" I take...oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with uo purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules ; and while I do not choose...
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Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ...

Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 360 pages
...the states when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause — as cheerfully to one section as to another. I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations..., and with no purpose to construe the Constitution and laws by any hypocritical rules." Such was the language of Mr. LINCOLN on the 4th of Mar eh, 1861,...
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