 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...overthrown." The platform of the party was prepared by Mr. Vallandigham. "The Constitution," it read, "has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty...trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country injured. Justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for... | |
 | Everit Brown, Albert Strauss - Political science - 1892 - 586 pages
...resolutions censuring the war acts of the government, a resolution was passed declaring it to be " the sense of the American people that after four years...failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war . . . immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention... | |
 | Everit Brown, Albert Strauss - United States - 1892 - 582 pages
...resolutions censuring the war acts of the government, a resolution was passed declaring it to be " the sense of the American people that after four years...failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war . . . immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Presidents - 1922 - 510 pages
...restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and the public liberty and the private right alike trodden down and the material prosperity of the country... | |
 | De Alva Stanwood Alexander - New York (State) - 1923 - 526 pages
...a great convention at Chicago in 1864, and declared that under Lincoln 'the Constitution itself had been disregarded in every part, and public liberty...material prosperity of the country essentially impaired ' ; and they strongly denounced ' the administrative usurpations of extraordinary and dangerous powers... | |
 | De Alva Stanwood Alexander - New York (State) - 1923 - 518 pages
...great convention at Chicago in 1864, and declared that under Lincoln ' the Constitution itself had been disregarded in every part, and public liberty...material prosperity of the country essentially impaired ' ; and they strongly denounced ' the administrative usurpations of extraordinary and dangerous powers... | |
 | Robert Clarkson Brooks - Elections - 1923 - 660 pages
...higher than the Constitution," and declared in words that were often brought up to plague the party, that "after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war . . . justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for... | |
 | Political parties - 1924 - 552 pages
...equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southern. Resolved, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the...which, under the pretense of a military necessity of war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part,... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1922 - 696 pages
...McClellan for president and adopted a platform containing a plank (written by Vallandigham) to the effect that "after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war . . . justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for... | |
 | Perry Belmont - Political parties - 1925 - 652 pages
...Committee on Resolutions. The extreme Peace party secured the adoption of a platform, which demanded "that this Convention does explicitly declare as the...Union by the experiment of war, during which, under pretense of a military necessity, of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself... | |
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People, that, after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part,... 
