 | George Washington - Nullification (States' rights) - 1862 - 36 pages
...States, assumed by one State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OP THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPIIESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY...DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED. After this general view of the leading principle, we must examine the particular application of it... | |
 | George Washington - 1862 - 40 pages
...destroy it. I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OP THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS... | |
 | J. H. Estcourt - United States - 1863 - 36 pages
...the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by ftie letter of the constitution, unauthorised by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on...destructive of the great object for which it was formed. The constitution declares that the judicial powers of the United States extend to cases arising under... | |
 | Southern statesman - Campaign literature - 1863 - 24 pages
...memorable sentences occur : I consider the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted...letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistentfwith every principle on which it is founded, and destructive of the great object for which... | |
 | J. H. Estcourt - Slavery - 1863 - 38 pages
...I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, 11 . • • incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorised by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...existence of tkt ITnion, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by ill spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which...founded, and destructive of the great object for which it wa» formed." A little farther on, he proclaimed his concurrence in the " National,"' as contradistinguished... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...in these unambiguous terms : law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with tlie existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by...destructive of the great object for which it was formed" A little farther on, he proclaimed his concurrence in the " National/' as contradistinguished from... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 pages
...positions taken in South Carolina incompatible with the existence of the Union, derogatory to the express letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit,...destructive of the great object for which it was formed. It re-expounded the Constitution according to the views previously announced in the Senate by Mr. Webster,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...unambiguous terms : "I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorieed by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it wag founded, and destructive... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...unambiguous terms : law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the exietence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by itt spirit, inconsittent with every principle on whifh it wa-s founded, and destructire of the great... | |
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I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle... 
