 | 1867 - 384 էջ
...the United States, as firmly asserted the opposite doctrine : — "I hold," he says, " that in the contemplation of universal law and of the constitution,...in the fundamental law of all national governments. If the United States be not a compact proper, but an association of states in the nature of a contract... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 էջ
...disruption of the federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution...the fundamental law of all national governments. It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 էջ
...difficulty. A disruption of the federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted . I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and...ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 էջ
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...all national governments. It is safe to assert that Government proper never had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 էջ
...Lincoln's Inaugural Address. and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetnity is Implied, If not expressed, in the fundamental law...ever had a provision, in its organic law, for its own termination. Continne to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union... | |
 | 1862 - 200 էջ
...constitutional term of four years, under grave and peculiar difficulties. menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and...ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 էջ
...disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,...ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 էջ
...disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,...ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union... | |
 | 1897 - 678 էջ
...reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. . . . I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...in the fundamental law of all national governments. . . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issus of... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 էջ
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and...ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union... | |
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I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all National Governments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper... 
