 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 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...the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken : arid, to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 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...that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the i^aS^ttj, Union is unbroken." And in his special message M i86i h 4' to Congress on July 4, 1861, occurs... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 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...are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to the circumstances. I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 132 pages
...the states impossible. James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States (1 861 ) I ... consider that, in view of the Constitution and the...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the states. ... I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only... | |
 | Carolyn Lawton Harrell - History - 1997 - 156 pages
...State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary. ... I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken and ... I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...was on his terms a "dissolution," an act of revolution "against the authority of the United States." "I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken.'"' He would continue to hold that view throughout the Civil War. His principal claim, moreover, was not... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 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... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 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. In this history, Lincoln reasserts his view of the Union as a national government. Anticipating the... | |
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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... 
