 We have witnessed in one department of the Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, the Congress of the...  Charles Sumner - Page 321by Moorfield Storey - 1900 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1869 - 652 pages
...from several speeches made by the President, in one of which he had said, "We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and... | |
 | Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Alexander Jacob Schem, Edward McPherson, Henry Eckford Rhoades - Almanacs, American - 1868 - 672 pages
...government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and Union. We have Been hanging upon the verge of the government, as it were, a body called,...fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - History - 1867 - 636 pages
...his reply to Reverdy Johnson as the organ of the Philadelphia Convention, " We have seen hanging upon the verge of the government, as it were, a body called, or which assumed to be, the Congress of the United States, but in fact a Congress of only a part of the States"... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - History - 1867 - 650 pages
...reply to Reverdy Johnson as the organ of the Philadelphia Convention, " We have seen hanging upon ike verge of the government, as it were, a body called, or which assumed to be, the Congress of the United States, but in fact a Congress of only a part of the States."... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 444 pages
...Johnson) and others, and' without rebuke or reply from that learned senator, " We have seen banging upon the verge of the government, as it were, a body called,...fact, it is a Congress of only a part of the States ; " plainly intimating that that Congress had no power to pass laws for the government of the rebel... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1868 - 144 pages
...Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and Union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 774 pages
...Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony and union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 312 pages
...government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, barmony and union. We have seen hanging npon the verge of the government, as it were, a body called...United States, while in fact it is a Congress, of only part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 792 pages
...Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony and union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 794 pages
...restoration of peace, harmony and union. We have Been hanging upon the verge of the government, tut it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, the...fact, it Is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen i In- Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate... | |
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