 In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence....  The R.I. Schoolmaster - Page 2031861Full view - About this book
 | Jeremiah Smith - Slavery - 1863 - 506 pages
...concession that the constitution itself was made in. Hear what the Father of his country said of it: "The constitution which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity and mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable."... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 604 pages
...constitution was reported by Johnson, on the twelfth of September, with a letter to congress stating it to be the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. Several amendments having been made to the plan,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each stato in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...— the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...deference and concession which the peculiarity of pur political situation rendered indispensable. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. Tliis h:ito been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constiljilion which we now present is the result of a... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...— the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...our minds, led each State in the Convention to be lesa rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution... | |
 | 1868 - 646 pages
...the consolidation of oar Union, — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; aud thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, aud of that mutual... | |
 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1868 - 648 pages
...the consolidation of our Union, — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of interior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution which we now... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each State in the Convention to be...inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise Metropolitan Bank v. Van Dyok. expected ; and thus the Constitution which we now present is the result... | |
 | John F. Callan, United States - Military law - 1868 - 620 pages
...American—the consolidation of our Union; in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety—perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...on our minds, led each state in the convention to he less rig1d on points of inferior magnitude than might have heen otherwise expected; and thus the... | |
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