 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the government They have conducted it through many...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1888 - 602 pages
...fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through...brief constitutional term of four years, under great ani peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofoie only menaced, is now formidably... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | 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 onset... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through...hold, that, in the contemplation of universal law and the Constitution, the union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...for the brief constitutional terra of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. Adisruptiou of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. " I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity... | |
 | 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 years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, hitherto only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
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A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. 
