 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 277by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 450 pages
...speeches of members. In his first inaugural address he said : " It follows from these views that O no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get...resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void." The pretence of "conquest" was never even suggested until long after the war, and then by members of... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 452 pages
...pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.' I now reiterate these sentiments." He further stated : " It follows from these views, that no State, upon its...own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States,... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - United States - 1868 - 426 pages
...union of the States is 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...United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, and that he should, as the Constitution expressly enjoined upon him, take care that the laws of the... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...government, and not a mere association, of the states; that no state of its own mere motion can lawfully go out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that in this view he should take care, as enjoined by the Constitution, that all the laws of the Union should... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...government, and not a mere association of the states ; that no state of its own mere motion can lawfully go out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that in this view he should take care, as enjoined by the Constitution, that all the laws of the Union should... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 872 pages
...to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. * * * * * * * *•* It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion j. can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void;... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...Union by one, or by a part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element...motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves an&ordinancesto that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...the Union of these States is perpetual, — that no State, upon its own mere motion, can law• fully get out of the Union, — that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, — that acts of violence within any State are insurrectionary or revolutionary, — and that, to the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1870 - 870 pages
...impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. ********* It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion,, ran lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinance* to that effect are legally void; and... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...Union by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. States. Doing this I*deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform it, as far as practicable,... | |
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