 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 686 pages
...indirectly with slavery in the States ; he intimated that he should enforce the Fugitive Slave law;5 he held "that in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual." "No state," he continued, " upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; resolves... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...indirectly with slavery in the States ; he intimated that he should enforce the Fugitive Slave law;' he held "that in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual." "No state," he continued, " upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; resolves... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 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,...perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fund amental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...the wrong. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S VIEW OF THE RIGHT TO SECEDE.—FROM HIS FIRST INAUGURAL, MARCH 4, 1861 I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and...for its own termination. Continue to execute all the expressed provisions of our National Government, and the Union will endure forever—it being impossible... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...this interesting subject. These extracts are from his inaugural, and from his first annual message: I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...in the fundamental law of all national Governments. Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...President wished them well, but that he refused them their most important demand. " I hold," he said, " that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these states is perpetual." He declared that no state, upon its own mere motion, could lawfully get out of the Union, and that... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...President wished them well, but that he refused them their most important demand. " I hold," he said, " that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these states is perpetual." He declared that no state, upon its own mere motion, could lawfully get out of the Union, and that... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the union of the states is perpetual. I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 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... | |
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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... 
