Our Domestic Relations: Or, How to Treat the Rebel StatesBoston : s.n., 1861 - 529 páginas |
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Página 512 - we kept steadily in view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American,— THE CONSOLIDATION OF OUR UNION, — in which is involved our prosperity, safety, perhaps our national existence. " GEORGE WASHINGTON." The Constitution was duly transmitted by Congress to the several legislatures, by which it was submitted to
Página 512 - increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations we kept steadily in view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American,— THE CONSOLIDATION OF OUR UNION, — in which is involved our prosperity,
Página 511 - in the title of these Articles, which was as follows : — " Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Página 508 - hasten to retrace our step^, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." There is nothing new under the sun, and the military governors whom we are beginning to appoint find a prototype in
Página 514 - and offences against the law of nations ; declare war ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; make rules concerning captures on land and water ; raise and support armies ; provide and maintain a navy ; make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces ; provide for calling forth the militia to
Página 512 - but a government ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves and their posterity. This government is not established by the States, nor is it established/or the States ; but it is established by
Página 528 - person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the Government of the United States shall, before entering upon its duties, take an oath " that he has not voluntarily borne arms against the United States, or given aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto,
Página 515 - of sovereignty, it is solemnly declared that the Constitution, and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties under the authority of the United States,
Página 521 - and the abandonment of his kingly duties, the two Houses of Parliament voted, that the monarch, " having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom,
Página 513 - clear; and the danger of such a government is to my mind very striking. I have the highest veneration for those gentlemen ; but, Sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say,