 | Edward Stanwood - Political Science - 1884 - 424 pages
...exhaust all the resources of statesmanship ... to secure such peace." The convention had proclaimed "four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war;" General McClellan wrote: "I could not look in the face of my gallant comrades of the army and navy,... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...the State tribunal. fChecrs.1 [Plank 2. The Rebellion. DEMOCRATIC. 1864— That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four year* of failure to restore the Union by the exREPUBLICAN. 1864— That it is the highest duty of every... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...the State tribunal. [Cheers.l [Plank 2. The Rettellion. DEMOCRATIC. 1864__That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four year s of failure to restore ike Union by the exREPUBLICAN. 1864—That it is the highest ^duty of... | |
 | Emery E. Childs - United States - 1885 - 268 pages
...the Democratic party, with other less important resolutions, declared, " That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people,...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 110 pages
...its deliberations. It was, however, not a convention of representative Democrats, for it resolved " that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war," " justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation... | |
 | Isaac E. Adams - Lawyers - 1886 - 840 pages
...remember Mr. Tilden denounced another failure. For instance: ' Resolved, That this Convention does explicitly declare as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure,' etc. "So you see that is a favorite word with them. In 1876 they 'denounce the failure for all these... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - Political parties - 1888 - 436 pages
...and prosperity of all the States, both northern and southern. Resolved, Th&\. this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American peop'le,...liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the jpaterial prosperity of the Country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 648 pages
...and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southern. "Resolved, That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people,...which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...the most significant of them. The platform presented these propositions : " That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people,...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 pages
...the convention were expressed in the following resolution : — " Resolved, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people,...the experiment of war, - — during which, under the pretence of military necessity or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has... | |
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American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every... 
