 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive...the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formally attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...President under our national Constitution. During that period fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. • A disruption of the federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executivebranch of the Government. They have conducted it through...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, Hie Union of these States is... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1888 - 602 pages
...President under our national Constitution. During that period fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive...brief constitutional term of four years, under great ani peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofoie only menaced, is now formidably... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive...and generally with great success. Yet, with all this sccpe for precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years,... | |
 | Lewis Appleton - Politicians - 1889 - 244 pages
...Lincoln delivered his inaugural address as President of the ^w-United States, in which he declared: — "A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the eye of universal law, and of the constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual."... | |
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It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the Government. They... 
