 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows, from these views, that no State, upon...consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon its...consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and, to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows, from these views, that no State, upon...consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows from these views that no State, upon its own me-e motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves...to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of vio lence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...the Union is lest perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital elemeut of perpetuity. It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of tho Union ; that retoltet and ordinances to that effect art legally void , and that acts of violence,... | |
 | William D. Jones - United States - 1864 - 276 pages
...citizens in the several States." The Constitution, he said, " contemplates the Union to be perpetual ;" " no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ;" and " acts of violence within any State against the authority. of the United States are insurrectionary... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 pages
...this address, for I cannot devote my hour to reading the whole of it, Mr. Lincoln further said : — " I, therefore, consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...the address. Traitors and their sympathizers were displeased. Mr. Lincoln said in that address, — " I therefore consider, that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and, to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution expressly... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon its...consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and, to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows, from these views, that no State, upon...consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself... | |
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