 In order to justify secession as a constitutional remedy, it must be on the principle that the Federal Government is a mere voluntary association of States, to be dissolved at pleasure by any one of the contracting parties.  A Child's History of the United States - Page 239by John Gilmary Shea - 1872Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1860 - 600 pages
...so any one of them may retire from the Union in a similar manner by the vote of such a convention. In order to justify secession as a constitutional...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...so any one of them may retire from the Union in a similar manner by the vote of such a convention. In order to justify secession as a constitutional...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the Confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
 | Books - 1861 - 922 pages
...retire from the Union in a similar manner by the vote of such a Convention. " In order to justify a secession as a constitutional remedy it must be on...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1861 - 974 pages
...the Union in a similar manner by the vote of such a Convention. " In order to justify a secession ns a constitutional remedy it must be on the principle...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...manner by the vote of such a Convention. " In order to justify secession as a constitutional remedy.it must be on the principle that the Federal Government...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the Confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...so any one of them may retire from the Union in a similar manner by the vote of such a convention. " In order to justify secession as a constitutional...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...mauner by the vote of snch a Convention. " In order to justify secession as a constitutional remedy,it must be on the principle that the Federal Government...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the Confederacy is a rope of sand, 'to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...offered the office of Attorney-General, by "WASHINGTON. President BUCHANAN, in his annual Message, 1860 : "In order to justify secession as a constitutional...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...guilty of "a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise" of powers not granted by the Constitution. In order to justify secession as a constitutional remedy, it must be on the principle that ths F;de-al Government is a mere voluntary association of S at s . . . If this be so, the Confederacy... | |
 | James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 pages
...so any one of them may retire from the Union in a similar manner by the vote of such a convention. " In order to justify secession as a constitutional...one of the contracting parties. If this be so, the Confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion... | |
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