 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 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,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 672 pages
...from the Federal Convention to Congress, in submitting to them the plan of the Constitution : — " In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." You will please to observe, that this language is not applied to the powers... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 642 pages
...from the Federal Convention to Congress, in submitting to them the plan of the Constitution : — " In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." You will please to observe, that this language is not applied to the powers... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 660 pages
...patriotic and assiduous labors, he made this most important declaration : " In all our deliberations upon this subject, we kept steadily in our view, that which...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1851 - 436 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,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - Political science - 1851 - 428 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,... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1851 - 26 pages
...United States to Congress, "in all our deliberations we have kept steadily in view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American,...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." I hear him say that to-day, and I hear him say further to-day, in the words... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 658 pages
...generation, and fervently to pray Heaven that the spirit which was in him may also be in us. pears to us the greatest interest of every true American,...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds,... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 702 pages
...times difficult," said the convention ; " and on the present occasion this difficulty," say they, " was increased by a difference among the several States...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. The Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that natural deference... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 722 pages
...'deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in 'view. that which appears to us the general inter' est of every true American, the consolidation of ' our...Union, in which is involved our prosperity. ' felicity, and safety, perhaps our national exist' eace." The sentiments of the letter maintained the doctrines... | |
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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... 
