 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 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... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. . . . I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...in the fundamental law of all national governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of... | |
 | Republican Club of the City of New York - 1900 - 76 pages
...loyalty in America for all time and showed the metal of this courageous and patriotic President. " I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...Constitution the union of these States is perpetual." Then finally came that matchless utterance of loyalty and love that lifts the name of Lincoln into... | |
 | 1900 - 76 pages
...loyalty in America for all time and showed the metal of this courageous and patriotic President. " I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...Constitution the union of these States is perpetual." Then finally came that matchless utterance of loyalty and love that lifts the name of Lincoln into... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1900 - 692 pages
...the man. He had already said in that same inaugural, and for four weary years he abided by it, — " I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...constitution, the union of these states is perpetual." It is not too much to say that in that moment, the voice of John Marshall spoke again. I need not,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 434 pages
...of moderation with which he approached his perilous position. At the same time he declared openly, that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual, — that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union, — that resolves and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. (March 4, 1861, -First Inaugural— Van Buren, p. 52.) I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the union of these States 101 is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - History, Modern - 1900 - 734 pages
...exists. . . . The Union of these States is perpetual. It is safe to assert that no government probably ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. The power conveyed to me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Nineteenth century - 1900 - 446 pages
...March 4, 1861 ; and in his address as President of the United States, he outlined his determination. " I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution," he said, " the Union of these States is perpetual. . . . No State upon its own mere motion can lawfully... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 pages
...dilliculty. A disruption of the federal Union, heretofore only mentioned, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...that no government proper ever had a provision in its organiclaw for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national... | |
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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... 
