 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 pages
...lawfully demanded for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - United States - 1891 - 494 pages
...cloud which seemed to hang over the audience began to fade away when he said, " I hold that in the contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual 1" — with the words " I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...and generally with great success. Yet with all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the same task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menanced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 pages
...and generally with great success. Yet. with all this scope for precedent. I now enter upon the same task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...which he steadily made his way. I. THE UNION is INCAPABLE OF DIVISION. In his first Inaugural he said: "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." In his reply to Fernando Wood, then Mayor of New York, he said, " There is nothing that could ever... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years...formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation ofj1niversal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetualT Perpetuity is implied,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 pages
...and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years...peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, here- j tofore only menaced, is now formidably at-/ tempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under A great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. 1 1 hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Consti- ^ tuition, the Union of these States... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the same task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 686 pages
...indirectly with slavery in the States ; he intimated that he should enforce the Fugitive Slave law;5 he held "that in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual." "No state," he continued, " upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; resolves... | |
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A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. 
