 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...government, and not a mere association of the states ; that no state of its own mere motion can lawfully go out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that in this view he should take care, as enjoined by the Constitution, that all the laws of the Union should... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 860 pages
...impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. * * * * * * * * * It follows, from these views, that no State, upon...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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 872 pages
...to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. * * * * * * * *•* It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion j. can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void;... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves an&ordinancesto that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence,...are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.8 I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken;... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...the Union of these States is perpetual, — that no State, upon its own mere motion, can law• fully get out of the Union, — that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, — that acts of violence within any State are insurrectionary or revolutionary, — and that, to the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1870 - 870 pages
...impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. ********* It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion,, ran lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinance* to that effect are legally void; and... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...among other things he said, " no State of its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ;" and reply to mine of same date, asking conditions on * for taki unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...possible, the Union is less 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... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...possible, the Union is less 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... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...possible, the Union is less 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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It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \... 
