 | United States. Congress. House - 1090 стор.
...contravention of a compact, but it is an offence against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the...contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any oflence. Secession,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 900 стор.
...contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may, at pleasure, secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a Nation ; because it will be a solecism to contend that one part of the Nation might dissolve its connection with the other... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1887 - 442 стор.
...absurdity of giving power to make laws, and another power to resist them. To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States are not a nation." He appealed to the people of South Carolina, in the tone of a father, to desist from their ruinous... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 904 стор.
...contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may, at pleasure, secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a Nation ; because it will be a solecism to contend that one part of the Nation might dissolve its connection with the other... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 стор.
...contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. "To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States is not a nation, because it would I".- a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve... | |
 | 1890 - 802 стор.
...States; they retained all the power they did not grant. ... To say that any State may at pleasu re secede from the Union, is to say that the United States...parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offense. Secession, like any other revolutionary act, maybe morally justified by the extremity... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - 1892 - 1144 стор.
...contravention of a compact, but it is an offence agaiiist the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the...parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence." Without calling on Congress for extraordinary powers, the President in hi» annual message,... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1892 - 930 стор.
...an offence against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, ifl to say that the United States are not a nation ; because...parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any often ce." Without calling on Congress for extraordinary powers, the President in hi» annual message,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 538 стор.
...so did every revenue law that ever had been or ever could be passed. " To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation." In conclusion the people of South Carolina were plainly warned that in case any forcible resistance... | |
 | James Parton - 1892 - 362 стор.
...ever be passed. The right of a State to secede was strongly denied. " To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation." The individual States are not completely sovereign, for they voluntarily resigned part of their sovereignty.... | |
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To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation... 
