 | Law - 1867 - 384 pages
...the United States, as firmly asserted the opposite doctrine : — "I hold," he says, " that in the contemplation of universal law and of the constitution,...in the fundamental law of all national governments. If the United States be not a compact proper, but an association of states in the nature of a contract... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...disruption of the federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution...the fundamental law of all national governments. It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...all national governments. It is safe to assert that Government proper never had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...Lincoln's Inaugural Address. and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetnity is Implied, If not expressed, in the fundamental law...provision, in its organic law, for its own termination. Continne to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. . . . I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...in the fundamental law of all national governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and...Governments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper over had a provision in its organic law for its own terminal' on. C utinue to execute all the express... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and...expressed, in the fundamental law of all National GTovernments. It is safe to assert that no G-overnment proper ever had a provision in its organic law... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,...law for its own termination. Continue to execute all (he express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,...government proper ever had a provision in its organic taw for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...right of secession is this clearly-bounded statement of the first Inaugural : " I hold that in the contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution,...that no government proper ever had a provision in its own organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National... | |
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I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper... 
