 | 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...Constitutional term «of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | 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,...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens. have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...for precedent, I now enter upon the same task for thc brief constitutional term of four years, tinder great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the sdme task for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through...and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scopefor precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years... | |
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A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. 
