 | Everit Brown, Albert Strauss - United States - 1892 - 568 pages
...of existing parties as tending "to widen political divisions," and declared their principle to be " the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." John Bell, of Tennessee, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, were respectively nominated for President... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...their remedy for the sore was a plaster, when it rather needed cauterization. Their platform was : i' The Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws ;" and they nominated — For President, Bell, of Tennessee ; and for Vice-President, Everett, of Massachusetts... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - Confederate States of America - 1892 - 820 pages
...the Constitutional Union party. It adopted a short declaration of principles, announcing " 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... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - African Americans - 1893 - 372 pages
...besides, some men who would not have been Know Nothings. It adopted a very brief platform, recognizing "no political principle other than the Constitution...union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws," and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for the presidency. The Republican convention met in Chicago on... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1893 - 368 pages
...besides, some men who would not have been Know Nothings. It adopted a very brief platform, recognizing "no political principle other than the Constitution...union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws," and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for the presidency. The Republican convention met in Chicago on... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 pages
...part of patriotism and of duty to recog1 Greeley's Amer. Conflict, i. 326. 3 Ibid. i. 306, 307. nize no political principle other than the Constitution...union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." This party gathered nearly all the peaceable elements of the community ; it assumed a deprecatory attitude... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1895 - 606 pages
...Tennessee and Edward Everett of Massachusetts, adopting as their platform the indefinite declaration, " The Constitution of the country, the union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws." The Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine (Sect. 299). Thus... | |
 | Asa Hollister Craig - Examinations - 1897 - 538 pages
...protect the rights of slave-holders in all the territories. The Bell party had for their platform : " The Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." Union, seceded, but the Federal government, denying that right, raised armies and enforced its authority.... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - United States - 1893 - 1000 pages
...known as the " Constitutional Union Party," proclaimed as its platform the following vague sentence : "The constitution of the country, the union of the States and the enforcement ofthe laws." The convention of this party met at Baltimore, and nominated for the Presidency John Bell,... | |
 | Michael Rheta Martin, Leonard Gelber - History - 1978 - 748 pages
...of Tennessee as its presidential candidate, and established a platform which declared "no polities' principle other than the Constitution of the country,...union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws." The Party was composed largely of WHIG remnants, or as LINCOLN referred to them, "the nice, exclusive... | |
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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS... 
