 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...the faith of all the then Thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally,...of the States, be lawfully po'ssible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778; and, finally,...Constitution was to form a more perfect union. But, if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally,...Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of the Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one...Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally,...of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...the faith of all the then Thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally,...only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows,... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...the faith of all the then Thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally,...of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. "It follows,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederaiion in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared...of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is leai perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows,... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. An. I. finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for...Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfally possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...anil engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, filially, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part onl^, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution... | |
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It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally,... 
