 | Cicero Willis Harris - 1902 - 358 sidor
...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 a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must."* To the New England Democrats, he thought, higher praise was due than to the Democrats of the South.... | |
 | Gaillard Hunt - 1902 - 428 sidor
...from their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must." When prospects of peace first appeared he wrote to * Dept. of State MSS. t Dept. of State MSS. Senator... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sidor
...their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, — amicably if they can, violently if they must.8 Abridged Cony. Debates, Jan. 14. 1811. V ol. Ir. p. 327. 1 Eeviewers, with some rare exceptions,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 sidor
...their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, — amicably if they can, violently if they must.* Abridged Cony. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. it. p. 327. l Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are... | |
 | Edmund Janes Carpenter - 1903 - 352 sidor
...their moral obligation; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must." the annexation of the Louisiana country a few years before, the cry of unconstitutionally was instantly... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - 1903 - 476 sidor
...their moral obligation and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must."1 The question in the angry dispute on the first attempt to create a state out of the territory... | |
 | Alcée Fortier - 1904 - 386 sidor
...their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must." After some little confusion, Mr. Poindexter required the decision of the Speaker whether it was consistent... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - 1904 - 562 sidor
...their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must . . . " ' What shall we do,' says the gentleman from Tennessee (Rhea), ' if we do not admit the people... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - 1904 - 554 sidor
...their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must . . . " ' What shall we do,' says the gentleman from Tennessee (Rhea), ' if we do not admit the people... | |
 | Curtis Manning Geer - 1904 - 646 sidor
...a virtual dissolution of the Union. " It would be the right of all and the duty of some definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must." It seemed to him unconstitutional, because the makers of the Constitution did not contemplate the inclusion... | |
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If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this 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, definitely to prepare for... 
