 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 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.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 540 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive...generally with great success.* Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years, under... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive...conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success.4 Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional... | |
 | Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 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.... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...During that period, fifteen different and very distinguished citizens have in succession admininistered the executive branch of the government. They have...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menanced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...President under the national Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive...generally, with great success. Yet with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon this same task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...President nnder our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive...generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope fur precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years, under... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...perils and, generally, with great success. Yet with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon this same task, for the brief constitutional term of four...peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, hitherto only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...for the brief constitutional terra of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. Adisruptiou of the Federal Union, 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... | |
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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... 
