 | John Caldwell Calhoun - History - 2003 - 766 pages
...was to continue the then existing union. In their letter, laying it before Congress, they say, — "In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept...every true American, the consolidation of our union." "Our union," can refer to no other than the then existing union, — the old union of the confederacy,... | |
 | J. H. H. Weiler, Marlene Wind - Law - 2003 - 256 pages
...surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the several States as to their...deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional history - 2003 - 808 pages
...between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved. And on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - Presidents - 2004 - 68 pages
...a letter prepared by the convention to explain the convention's actions: "In all our deliberations we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important considerat1on, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds,... | |
 | Jackson Turner Main - History - 2004 - 340 pages
...was exercised, nor ever exer27. Washington's letter which was sent forth with the Constitution read, "In all our deliberations on this subject we kept...every true American, the consolidation of our Union," Ford, ed., Journals of Congress, XXXIII, 502. The word may have been innocently used, in the sense... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Civil rights - 2004 - 762 pages
...between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved. And on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference...interests. " In all our deliberations on this subject we have kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American.... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests." The debates of that period will show that the effect of the slave votes upon the political influence... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 2005 - 1408 pages
...which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difflerence among the several states, as to their situation, extent,...and particular interests. In all our deliberations oh this subject, we kept steadily in our view that, which appears to us the greatest interest of every... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - History - 2006 - 657 pages
...between those rights which must " be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds,... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...states upon completion of the Constitution, the Philadelphia Convention expressed the following opinion: In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American - the consolidation of the Union, in which... | |
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In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national... 
