 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each state in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude,... | |
 | Jeremiah Smith - Slavery - 1863 - 506 pages
...concession that the constitution itself was made in. Hear what the Father of his country said of it: "The constitution which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity and mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable."... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each stato in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...our minds, led each State in the Convention to be lesa rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. Tliis h:ito been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constiljilion which we now present is the result of a... | |
 | 1868 - 646 pages
...appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, — the consolidation of oar Union, — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; aud thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, aud of that mutual... | |
 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1868 - 648 pages
...appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, — the consolidation of our Union, — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of interior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution which we now... | |
 | John F. Callan, United States - Military law - 1868 - 620 pages
...American—the consolidation of our Union; in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety—perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...on our minds, led each state in the convention to he less rig1d on points of inferior magnitude than might have heen otherwise expected; and thus the... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than... | |
 | Oliver Morris Wilson - Constitutional law - 1869 - 588 pages
...appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...thus the Constitution which we now present is the (xx) result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity... | |
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In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American—- the consolidation of our Union— in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national... 
