 kept steadily in view was the consolidation of the Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the convention...  The Works of William H. Seward - Page 255by William Henry Seward - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 530 pages
...that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American,—the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,...important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on onr minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitadethan might... | |
 | United States. Congress - Constitutional law - 1861 - 478 pages
...which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American—the consolidation of our Union—in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 526 pages
...that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American,—the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,...deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Conventiou to be less rigid in points of inferior magTHEFEDERAL CONVENTION. Ill nitude than might have... | |
 | Nathaniel Carter Towle - Constitutional history - 1861 - 460 pages
...that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,...important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on or minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might... | |
 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...accompanying letter the President states that in all their deliberations the object which the members had kept steadily in view was the ' consolidation of the Union,' in which, he said, was involved ' the prosperity, felicity, safety, and perhaps national existence of the country.'... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American—the consolidation of our Union—in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1862 - 822 pages
...which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American— the consolidation of our union—in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected: and thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of unity, and of that mutual... | |
 | Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 pages
...which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American : the consolidation of the Union—in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety;...important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1863 - 548 pages
...view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,...magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American—the consolidation of our Union—in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety,...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual... | |
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