| 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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...years under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted . I hold that, in contemplation...execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it except by some... | |
| Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation...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... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under grave and peculiar difficulties. menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation...execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 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,...execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 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,...execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action... | |
| 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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation...execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some... | |
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