 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1851 - 716 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• ence." The sentiments of the letter maintained the doctrines... | |
 | Utah (Ter.) - Law - 1852 - 290 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...appears to us the greatest interest of every true American—the consolidation of our Union— in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 604 pages
...which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulry was increased by a difference among the several States...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds,... | |
 | William L. Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 588 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...of every true American— the consolidation of our Union—in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This... | |
 | United States. National Park Service - Constitutions - 1976 - 378 pages
...with the Constitution when he submitted it to the Continental Congress. Its purpose, he wrote, was the "consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." Arguments were important, but the actual process of ratification involved... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1978 - 1290 pages
...George Washington upon presentation of the original Constitution to the Congress in 1787. He said, "In all our deliberations on this subject we kept...interest of every true American, the consolidation of Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." Nearly... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 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...that which appears to us the greatest interest of everv true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,... | |
 | David A. J. Richards - Philosophy - 1989 - 332 pages
...White, Philosophy of American Revolution, pp. 243-34. the present occasion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interest.18 Leading Federalist commentators supported the Constitution on contractualist grounds of... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 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...involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds,... | |
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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... 
