 | United States - 1894 - 580 pages
...different and very distinguished citizens have in succession admininistered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many perils,...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menanced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1888 - 602 pages
...different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many perils,...brief constitutional term of four years, under great ani peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofoie only menaced, is now formidably... | |
 | Lewis Appleton - Politicians - 1889 - 244 pages
...Lincoln delivered his inaugural address as President of the ^w-United States, in which he declared: — "A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only...menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the eye of universal law, and of the constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." At the... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through many perils,...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many perils,...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success.4 Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional... | |
 | Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 pages
...different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many perils,...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...perils and, generally, with great success. Yet with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon this same task, for the brief constitutional term of four...peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, hitherto only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through many perils,...generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope fur precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years, under... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through many perils...generally, with great success. Yet with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon this same task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under... | |
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It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and... 
