 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 507 pages
...Union, by one or by a part only of the states, be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before. ... I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbrokeu ; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly... | |
 | ALEXANDER HARRIS. - 1876
...the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary, according to circumstances. "I, therefore consider, that in view of the Constitution and the Laws,... | |
 | Alexander Harris - Electronic books - 1876 - 517 pages
...the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States arc insurrectionary, according to circumstances. "I, therefore consider, that in view of the Constitution... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1908
...had said in his inaugural address on March 4, 1861: "I consider that in view of the Constitution and laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the states." His wife's connections were from the South. "Would he remain... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - United States - 1877 - 623 pages
...to a tew direct sentences : " 1 therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the lav:-. the Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability,...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States." Can anything be more explicit than that? How does the President... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - United States - 1877 - 623 pages
...is no obscurity at all. Allow me to call the attention of that Senator to a tew direct sentences : " I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution...Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability, 1 shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Slavery - 1877
...the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revo- . lutionary. Considering that the Union is unbroken, he pledged himself that he should take care... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1879 - 246 pages
...wished it. One party to a contract may violate or break it, but it requires all to lawfully rescind it. "I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 246 pages
...wished it. One party to a contract may violate or break it, but it requires all to lawfully rescind it. "I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - New York (State) - 1879 - 619 pages
...very carefully expressed on the great questions towards which all thoughts were directed. He said : " To the extent of my ability I shall take care, as...itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the United States be faithfully executed in all the States. The power confided to me will be used to hold,... | |
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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 State or States against the authority of the United... 
