 We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.  History of the American Civil War - Page 268by John William Draper - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...rapidly to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct; we have probably had too...intervention of COERCIVE POWER. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as... | |
 | William Jay - Judges - 1833 - 550 pages
...rapidly to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have, probably, had...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without having lodged somewhere... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...rapidly to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be is beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct; we have probably had too...intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging, somewhere, a power which will pervade the whole Union in as... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...rapidly to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct ; we have probably had too...intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole union in as... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct We have probably had too...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1888 - 576 pages
...my own. What the event will be, is beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. Wt have, probably, had too good an opinion of human nature...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without having lodged somewhere... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1838 - 754 pages
...before, when he said, ' Experience has taught us that men will not adopt, 'and carry intoettect executive measures, the best calculated for their * own good,...intervention of coercive power. I do not ' conceive that we can exist long, as a nation, without lodging ' somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...to British creditors the right of recovering in the United States their honest debts." — p. 314. "We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation" are his emphatic words. — p. 247. The sole remedy appeared to be a federal government, which should... | |
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