 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...administration. In his inaugural address the President had laid down the following propositions: " I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and...fundamental law of all national governments. . . It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union;... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - United States - 1891 - 482 pages
...was awaited with breathless interest. In his inaugural address of the 4th of March, 1861, he said: I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and...Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual. It follows from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 pages
...lawfully demanded for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - United States - 1891 - 494 pages
...cloud which seemed to hang over the audience began to fade away when he said, " I hold that in the contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual 1" — with the words " I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menanced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the constitution, the union of the States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, hitherto only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the union of the States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed in the fundamental law of all national... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...which he steadily made his way. I. THE UNION is INCAPABLE OF DIVISION. In his first Inaugural he said: "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." In his reply to Fernando Wood, then Mayor of New York, he said, " There is nothing that could ever... | |
 | 1899 - 652 pages
...took up the question of Secession, " Has a State the right to go out of the Union if it wants to ? " I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...provision in its organic law for its own termination. . . . Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution...safe to assert that no government proper ever had a pror vision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 376 pages
...and independence of America, and the authors of them treated accordingly. — • George Washington. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and...provision in its organic law for its own termination. — Abraham Lincoln. The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that... | |
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I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper... 
