 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,...governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own tennination. Continue to execute all the express... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, 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. Continue to execute all tho expiess... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...President then spoke of the political construction and character of the Republic. " I hold," he said, " 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. Continue to execute all the express... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...of moderation with which he approached his perilous position. At the same time he declared openly, that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual, — that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union, — that resolves and... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...contemplation of universal law and of the constitu;ion, the union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity s implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law...governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic aw for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...Union in its entirety and supremacy. As the executive head of the nation, Mr. Lincoln said, " In the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual. It is safe to say that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination."... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, 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. Continue to execute all the express... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...mind seems to be that of the Constitution acting by its own vigor, the fetish idea. He says : " 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. Continue to execute all the express... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,...governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own terniination. Continue to execute all the express... | |
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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,... 
