 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay - United States - 1881 - 246 pages
...asserted that the Union is perpetual; that secession resolves or ordinances are legally void; that acts of violence, within any State or States, against...United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary ; and that to the extent of his ability he should cause the laws to be faithfully executed in all the... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...passage which has often been cited, judicially and otherwise : " 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." State-Lapse; or, State-Suicide. ereignty... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 626 pages
...and election to the Presidency in 1860. In his inaugural address, Mr. Lincoln took the ground 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... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...lawfully get out of tho Union ; that retulum and ordinances to that effect are legally void , and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. I, therefore, consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unI broken, and,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...before,' the Constitution having lost the vital element ol perpetuity. 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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 pages
...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...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. I, therefore, consider that in view" of the constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and,... | |
 | George Sewall - 1884 - 126 pages
...government, to which Mr. Lincoln added these significant sentences: "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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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... | |
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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... 
