| Slavery - 1866 - 288 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... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 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... | |
| 1866 - 278 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... | |
| Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity."8 1 Scepape 82. " 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 Stevens Cabot Abbott - Presidents - 1867 - 510 pages
...; 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... | |
| Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 452 pages
...so do speeches of members. In his first inaugural address he said: "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 eifect are legally void." The pretence of "conquest" was never... | |
| United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element oi 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... | |
| United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 860 pages
...action not provided for in the instrument itself. * * * * * * * * * 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... | |
| Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 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... | |
| Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 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... | |
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