 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 844 sider
...effectual means of destroying it, but would banish all hope of its peaceable reconstruction. The fact is, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. Congress possesses many means of preserving it by conciliation, but the sword was not placed in their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1861 - 974 sider
...from the free citizens of a free State as a constituent member of the confederacy. . " The fact is, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...conciliation ; but the sword was not placed in their hands to preserve it by force. " But may I be permitted solemnly to invoke my countrymen to pause and... | |
 | 1861 - 922 sider
...required from the free citizens of a free State as a constituent member of the confederacy. " The fact is, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...conciliation ; but the sword was not placed in their hands to preserve it by force. " But may I be permitted solemnly to invoke my countrymen to pause and... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 572 sider
...what would be the sufferings and privations of the people daring its existence ? • " The fact is, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...affections of the people, it must one day perish. Congress possess many means of preserving it by conciliation ; but the sword was not placed hi their ^hand to... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 560 sider
...foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence ? "The fact is, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...the blood of its citizens shed In civil war. If it caunot live in the affections of the people, it mnst one day perish. Congress possess many means of... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 sider
...foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence ? " The fact is, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. If it can not live in the affections of the people, it must one day perish. Congress possess many means of... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1862 - 554 sider
...foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence ? " The fact is, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of it* citizens shed in civil war. If it caunot live in the affections of the people, it must one day... | |
 | Eduard Maco Hudson - 1868 - 240 sider
...foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence? ' The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...conciliation ; but the sword was not placed in their hands to preserve it by force.' II. Commencement of the War. The secession of the State of South Carolina... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1863 - 284 sider
...of destroying it ; but would banish all hope of its peaceable re-construction." * * * " The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can...it by conciliation, but the sword was not placed in its hands to destroy it by force." These views he repeats in a special Message on the subject. President... | |
 | 1897 - 678 sider
...would it be wise to exercise It under existing circumstances? . . . The fact is, that our Union res;s upon public opinion and can never be cemented by the...In civil war. If it cannot live In the affections ot the people. It must one day perish. Congress possesses many means of preserving it by conciliation:... | |
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The fact if, that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. If it cannot live in the affections of the people, it must one day perish. Congress possesses many means of preserving it... 
