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... War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis - Page 211by Henry Stuart Foote - 1866 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...each State shall be entitled to all the privieges and immunities of citizens in the several States ?' take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to constrne the Constitution or laws by any bypercritical rules ; and, while I do not choose now to specify... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States? " I take the official oath to-day •with no mental...•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... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States ? I take the official oath, to-day, 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States ?" I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...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... | |
| David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 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... | |
| 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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