 | Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...the Union : resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United...are insurrectionary or revolutionary according to the circumstances." MARCH 4. R- GLADSTONE in an eloquent speech in defence of a foreign policy sympathetic... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...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 United...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...and that acts of violence within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, arc insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances....expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be onlv a simple duty on my part; and... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...expressed a firm and unalterable purpose to maintain the Union at every hazard. " I consider," he said, " that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...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 United...insurrectionary, or revolutionary, according to circumstances." Then Lincoln, having shown by a clear and luminous argument that no State could "lawfully get out of... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 pages
...the Union ; resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and acts of violence within any State or States, against the authority of the United...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances." Then followed a declaration that, in his view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union was unbroken,... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 pages
...that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legaily void ; and that acts of violence within any State or States, against the authority of the United...insurrectionary or revolutionary according to circumstances. . . . That, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...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 United...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...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 United...enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union shall be faith fully executed in all the states. Doing this, which I deem to be only a simple duty on my part,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 pages
...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 United...Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken." And in his special message to Congress on July 4, 1861, occurs this supplementary declaration: "The States... | |
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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 United... 
