 | John Franch - Capitalists and financiers - 2006 - 386 pages
...On inauguration day—March 4, 1861—Lincoln made his course clear to all when he pledged to ensure "that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States." 14 The president would not allow the seceded states to remain outside of the Union. They would have... | |
 | Joe Wheeler - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 313 pages
...contemplation of universal laws, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual!" and "I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that 155 the 'laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the states!'" When he continued on with... | |
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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... 
