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When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination - Page 15
by Carolyn Lawton Harrell - 1997 - 136 pages
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The National Political Manual

Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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...
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The National Political Manual: Comprising Facts and Figures, Historical ...

Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " 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...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 9

Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...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 ordinances to that effect are legally void, — that acts of violence within...
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The history of England, by D. Hume, continued by T. Smollett, and ..., Volume 4

David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...the constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows, from these views, that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves nnd ordinances to that effect are equally void ; and that acts of violence within any...
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A Review of the Political Conflict in America: From the Commencement of the ...

Alexander Harris - United States - 1876 - 530 pages
...would pursue was made in his inaugural address, wherein he says : " 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...
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History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volume 3

Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...he contended that it could not be peaceably unmade except by all the parties that made it ; 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...
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Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of ...

Thomas Lanier Clingman - United States - 1877 - 650 pages
...pronounces insurgents and revolutionists. This is his language. " 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...
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American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters, and Other Papers which Illustrate ...

Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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...
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The Theory of Our National Existence: As Shown by the Action of ..., Volume 959

John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...passage which has often been cited, judicially and otherwise : " 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." State-Lapse; or, State-Suicide. ereignty...
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