 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 708 pages
...States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war...was agreed to, nem. con. The Committee then rose, and the House adjourned. VOL. I.— 48* FRIDAY, JUNE IST. WILLIAM HOUSTOUN, from Georgia, took his... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 708 pages
...provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a~3eclaration of war than an infliction of punishment; and would...was agreed to, nem. con. The Committee then rose, and the House adjourned. VOL. I.— 48* FRIDAY, JUNE IST. WILLIAM HoUSTOUN, from Georgia, took his... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 700 pages
...States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war...attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by wh^h it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this resource unnecessary,... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1845 - 672 pages
...states containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war...was agreed to, nem. con. The committee then rose, and the house adjourned. FRIDAY, June 1. William Houstoun, from Georgia, took his seat. The committee... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1858 - 688 pages
...period in the deliberations of the Convention, declared that the use of force against a State would be more like a declaration of war than an infliction...dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.1 At his suggestion, a clause in Governor Randolph's plan authorizing the use of force against... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1860 - 600 pages
...powerful speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed: "The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war...all previous compacts by which it might be bound." Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented. Soon... | |
 | Missouri. Convention - History - 1861 - 336 pages
...States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war...was agreed to, nem. con. "The committee then rose, and the House adjourned." I need not read from the debates upon this subject the reasons then given... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...powerful speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed: " The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war...all previous compacts by which it might be bound." Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented. Soon... | |
 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...Convention, on the 31st May, 1787, Madison declared that " the use of force against a State would be more like a declaration of war, than an infliction...attacked, as a dissolution of all previous compacts : a union of States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction." Again,... | |
 | Books - 1861 - 922 pages
...observed : — ' The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than any infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered...all previous compacts by which it might be bound.' Upon this motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented. Soon... | |
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... the use of force, the more he doubted the practicability, the justice, and the efficacy of it, when applied to people collectively, and not individually. A union of the states containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction.... 
