 | John Russell Hussey - United States - 1876 - 562 pages
...perpetual ; that no State could, upon its own mere motion, get out of the Union ; that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of...United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, and that he should, as the Constitution expressly enjoined upon him, take care that the laws of the... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...Union, by one or by a part only of the states, be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before. ... I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbrokeu ; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly... | |
 | Alexander Harris - Slavery - 1876 - 522 pages
...the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary, according to circumstances. "I, therefore consider, that in view of the Constitution and the Laws,... | |
 | Alexander Harris - United States - 1876 - 530 pages
...the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States arc insurrectionary, according to circumstances. "I, therefore consider, that in view of the Constitution... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1908 - 336 pages
...had said in his inaugural address on March 4, 1861: "I consider that in view of the Constitution and laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the states." His wife's connections were from the South. "Would he remain... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - United States - 1877 - 644 pages
...to a tew direct sentences : " 1 therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the lav:-. the Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability,...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States." Can anything be more explicit than that? How does the President... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - United States - 1877 - 650 pages
...is no obscurity at all. Allow me to call the attention of that Senator to a tew direct sentences : " I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution...Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability, 1 shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revo- . lutionary. Considering that the Union is unbroken, he pledged himself that he should take care... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...wished it. One party to a contract may violate or break it, but it requires all to lawfully rescind it. "I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 264 pages
...wished it. One party to a contract may violate or break it, but it requires all to lawfully rescind it. "I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
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It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United... 
