| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 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.... | |
| Daniel Walker Howe - Political Science - 1979 - 414 pages
...confronting the crisis he inherited on assuming the presidency, Lincoln could be certain of one thing: "I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." To have maintained anything less would have betrayed his legal heritage.21 Lincoln's practice of law,... | |
| Robert A. Ferguson - Law - 1984 - 456 pages
...concerns have a central place in the First Inaugural Address more than twenty years later (1v, 262-271). "I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States Abraham Lincoln, by an unknown photographer at Mathew Brady's gallery, in Washington DC, about 1862.... | |
| Betsy Erkkila - History and criticism - 1989 - 369 pages
...came" (PW, II, 501). In his first inaugural address, Lincoln asserted the perpetuity of the Union: "I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." The very idea of secession was, he declared, "the essence of anarchy."' In a notebook of the time,... | |
| Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...posited the possibility of "destruction of the Union" (73). The second ended with this affirmation: I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental laws of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision... | |
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