 | Southern statesman - Campaign literature - 1863 - 20 pages
...States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by...spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it is founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed : The President, in the same... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...existence of tkt ITnion, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by ill spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which...founded, and destructive of the great object for which it wa» formed." A little farther on, he proclaimed his concurrence in the " National,"' as contradistinguished... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...States, assumed by one State, incompatible with tlie existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by...destructive of the great object for which it was formed" A little farther on, he proclaimed his concurrence in the " National/' as contradistinguished from... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - United States - 1865 - 818 pages
...positions taken in South Carolina incompatible with the existence of the Union, derogatory to the express letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit,...destructive of the great object for which it was formed. It re-expounded the Constitution according to the views previously announced in the Senate by Mr. Webster,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...of the Constitution, unauthorieed by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it wag founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." A little farther on, he proclaimed his concurrence in the '• National," as contradistinguished from... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly l)y the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its...the particular application of it which is made in the ordinance. The preamble rests its justification on these grounds : It assumes as a fact, that the... | |
 | 1866 - 278 pages
...existence of the Union, contradicted expressly T>y the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized ly its spirit^ inconsistent with every principle on which...the particular application of it which is made in the ordinance. The preamble rests its justification on these grounds : It assumes as a fact, that the... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - United States - 1868 - 438 pages
...States, assumed hy one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by...the particular application of it which is made in the ordinance. The preamble rests its justification on these grounds: It assumes, as a fact, that the... | |
 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...existence of the Union, contradicted eacpressly ty the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized In/ its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which...the particular application of it which is made in the ordinance. The preamble rests its justification on these grounds : It assumes as a fact, thai the... | |
 | John Young Foster - New Jersey - 1868 - 904 pages
...expressly by the letter of the Constitntion, unanthorized by its spirit, ineonsistent with every prineiple on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." — rrexidait Jackson't anti-mdUflcation menage. A constitutional right of secession is wholly inconsistent... | |
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I consider then the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED . EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE... 
