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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... "
Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ... - Page 91
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Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure

Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...was on his terms a "dissolution," an act of revolution "against the authority of the United States." "I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken.'"' He would continue to hold that view throughout the Civil War. His principal claim, moreover, was not...
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 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...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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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 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...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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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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...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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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...Union, — that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. In this history, Lincoln reasserts his view of the Union as a national government. Anticipating the...
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Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics

David A. Nichols - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 236 pages
...secession and "resolves and ord1nances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary." Lincoln meant to "hold, occupy, and possess" federal properties. What did such words mean for Indian...
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Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority

Mark Maslan - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 250 pages
...the Union . . . resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and . . . acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. ... I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only...
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Naval Campaigns of the Civil War

Paul Calore - History - 2015 - 240 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...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances." Furthermore, as the leader of the country he had a solemn oath to "preserve, protect, and defend it."...
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Africans in the Americas: Our Journey Throughout the World

Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 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...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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What Makes America Great?: Land of Freedom, Honor, Justice, and Opportunity

Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 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...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous question of civil...
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