 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...admission of Louisiana. If this bill passes, he said, "the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and it will be the right of all and the duty of some to prepare definitely for a separation, peaceably... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 840 pages
...rule of conduct, I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ;...amicably if they can, violently if they must. Mr. QnrsoT was here called to order by Mr. POBTDEXTER. Mr. QUINOT repeated, and justified the remark he... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 760 pages
...subsequently added : " I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ;...it are free from their moral obligations, and that, аз it will be right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Uuion are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose...from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1905 - 546 pages
...and cyclopaedias. He advanced the opinion that with the unconstitutional admission of the Louisiana " the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ;...— amicably if they can, violently if they must." He thus asserted the indefeasible right of resisting acts that were plainly unconstitutional ; it was... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1859 - 614 pages
...passed, these bonds were at once virtually dissolved, and that it was the right of all the States, and the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, forcibly if they must. These ravings of a diseased imagination have not altogether ceased. Even in... | |
 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 646 pages
...the Union — that it will free the States from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will then be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for separation — amicably if they can, forcibly if they must.' * " It is true... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 796 pages
...the bill, said : " I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ;...that the States which compose it are free from their obligations ; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation ; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some to prepare for separation, amicably if they can, VIOLENTLY IF THEY MUST." These were the sentiments of a large... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...from their moral obligations, ami that, as it tcill lie the rii/ht of all, so it trill be the diiti/ of some, to prepare, definitely, for a separation: amicably, if they can; violently, if they must. The bill which is now proposed to be passed has this assumed principle for Its basis: that the three... | |
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I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it... 
