| Wilmer L. Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 392 pages
...he added.1 In Lincoln's first inaugural address, he had said: "The Union of the States is perpetual. No State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union." Later, he said: "The country has placed me in the helm of the ship; I'll try to steer her through."... | |
| Robert J. Miller - History - 2007 - 264 pages
...embodied an idea and a rule of law that was unbreakable." In his First Inaugural, he clearly declared that "it follows from these views that no state, upon its...resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void . . ."'° It would take 620,000 deaths to resolve this Constitutional and moral issue in favor of the... | |
| Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect Union." . . . It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfullv get out of the Union — that resolves and unlinances to that effect are legally void; and... | |
| James M. McPherson - History - 2007 - 272 pages
...fundamental law of all national governments," he declared in his inaugural address on March 4, 1861. "No State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union." Two months later Lincoln told his private secretary that "the central idea pervading this struggle... | |
| Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon its...view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and, to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly... | |
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