 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...indirectly with slavery in the States ; he intimated that he should enforce the Fugitive Slave law;' 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...and generally with great success. Yet, with all 1 this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. "I HOLD THE UNION OF THESE STATES IS PERPETUAL." A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 794 pages
...unrepenlcd than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional. of four years under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore onlv menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 548 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 difficult}'. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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...attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal la\v and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...President wished them well, but that he refused them their most important demand. " I hold," he said, " that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these states is perpetual." He declared that no state, upon its own mere motion, could lawfully get out of the Union, and that... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...President wished them well, but that he refused them their most important demand. " I hold," he said, " that, in contemplation of universal law and of the...Constitution, the union of these states is perpetual." He declared that no state, upon its own mere motion, could lawfully get out of the Union, and that... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the union of the states is perpetual. I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that... | |
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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. 
