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" I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper,... "
The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ... - Page 106
by Edward McPherson - 1865 - 653 pages
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services

Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever; it being impossible to destroy it,...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it,...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ...

Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...Union older than Constitution. Secession Illegal. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it,...
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The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of ...

John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Discourse

Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 24 pages
...steadily made his way. I. THE UNION" is INCAPABLE OF DIVISION. In his first Inaugural he said: "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." In his reply to Fernando Wood, then Mayor of New York, he said, " There is nothing that could ever...
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The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons ..., Volume 1

Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.' But he also said, ' I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual.' And in support of this fundamental doctrine, his declaration that f there will be no using of force...
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The North American Review, Volume 100

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere." But he also said, " I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual." And in support of this fundamental doctrine, his declaration that " there will be no using of force...
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The Patriotism of Illinois: A Record of the Civil and Military ..., Volume 1

Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.' But he also said, ' I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual.' And in support of this fundamental doctrine, his declaration that ' there will be no using of force...
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The Promises of the Declaration of Independence: Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln ...

Charles Sumner - African Americans - 1865 - 64 pages
...moderation with which he approached his perilous position. At the same time he declared openly, that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual ; that no State, upoa its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances...
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President Lincoln; Self-pourtrayed

John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...national life, which above all engrosses him, since disruption is now "formidably attempted :" " I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and of the...governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. . . . No State, upon its own mere...
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