 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1869 - 534 pages
...his profound solicitude for the Union. ' Continue to execute ', says Mr. Lincoln in his Inaugural, '•all the express provisions of our National Constitution,...action not provided for in the instrument itself? Now, this was the doctrine of those by whom the Constitution was framed and adopted. Hence, by the... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national government, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible...proper, but an association of states in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...would " continue to execute all the express provisions of our national constitution, the Union would endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it,...action not provided for in the instrument itself." 2 But there is something else, lying behind the Constitution, which has to be settled before any conclusion... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 654 pages
...that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to 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 action not provided for in the instrument... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own terniination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national...proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...provisions to our National Constitution, and tbe Union will endure forever — it being impussible to destroy it, except by some action not provided...proper, but an association of States in the nature of the contract merely, can it, ,as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever. ... I consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 pages
...that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National...proper, but an association of States in the nature of the contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national...States be not a government proper, but an association ol States in the nature of a contract only, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Government, and the Union will endure forever— it being impossible...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
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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 ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the... 
