| Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...the name of America from being blotted out from the family of civilized nations. Resolved, That it is both the part of patriotism and of duty to recognize no political principles other than THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT... | |
| Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...creation and encouragement of geographical and sectional parties ; therefore, Resolved, That it ia both the part of patriotism and of duty to recognize no political principles other than THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OP THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT... | |
| George Spring Merriam - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 456 pages
...May. It was a sort of remnant of the old Whig party. Its resolutions were simply a declaration for " The Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the Enforcement of the Laws." It represented an attempt to make the preservation of the Union and the Constitution the supreme issue,... | |
| Frederick Thomas Jones - United States - 1886 - 330 pages
...presidency of Washington Hunt, NY; the platform is embraced in the resolution, that it is the part both of patriotism and of duty to recognize no political...union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws; John Bell, of Tenn., is nominated for President, with Edward Everett, of -Mass., for Vice-President.... | |
| John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...the remaining political elements, held that it was all wrong to have any principles at all, except " the Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the Enforcement of the Laws" — a platform which Horace Greeley well described as " meaning anything in general, and nothing in... | |
| Edward Stanwood - Presidents - 1888 - 476 pages
...creation and encouragement of geographical and sectional parties, therefore,— Tlesolvcd, That it is both the part of patriotism and of duty to recognize...union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws, and that, as representatives of the constitutional Union men of the country in national convention... | |
| Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - Political parties - 1888 - 436 pages
...therefore, Resolved, That it is both the part of palrotism and of duty to recognize no political principles other than THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OK THE LAWS; and that as representatives of the Constitutional Union men of the Country, in National... | |
| John William Jones - 1889 - 752 pages
...from all the States, and repudiating all geographical and sectional issues, and declaring it to be 'both the part of patriotism and of duty to recognize...Union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws/ pledged itself and its supporters 'to maintain, protect, and defend, separately and unitedly, those... | |
| K. L. Armstrong - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 460 pages
...political frontiers defined. The "Constitutional Union" party met at Baltimore. All itdemanded was the "Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." The Republicans met at Chicago. The platform is the most significant in the political history of the... | |
| Jefferson Davis - History - 1890 - 554 pages
...those great principles of public liberty and national safety against all enemies." It declared it to be the part of patriotism and of duty to recognize no...of the States, and the enforcement of the laws. It totally ignored the territorial question. Thus, four distinct parties presented rival tickets and platforms... | |
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