 | Franklin Hunter Churchill - 1888 - 224 sidor
...Representatives on the Louisiana enabling act, which became a law February 2Oth, 1811, said: "It is my deliberate opinion that, if this bill passes, the...free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably... | |
 | William Barrows - 1887 - 460 sidor
...preceding, Mr. Quincy spoke against the admission, and in very strong terms, some of them remarkable : " I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill passes, the bonds of the Union are virtually dissolved ; so that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations,... | |
 | 1898 - 734 sidor
...am compelled to declare it as my delioerate opinion that if this bill passes, (to annex territory) the bonds of this union are virtually dissolved; that...it are free from their moral obligations; and, that it will be the right of all to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably, if they can; violently,... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - 1889 - 796 sidor
...agreed to it ; they would not submit to it. Mr. Quincy of Massachusetts said in Congress : " It is my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will be the right... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - 1892 - 820 sidor
...in this country; and that in no great length of time may produce it. • * / am compelled to declare that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union...virtually, dissolved; that the States which compose il are fret from thrir moral obligation, and that as it will he the riyht of all, so trill it be Die... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1893 - 372 sidor
...great Louisiana purchase, " it is my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of the Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which...free from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, —... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1893 - 368 sidor
...the great Louisiana purchase, "it is my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of the Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which...free from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, —... | |
 | Alva Adams - 1894 - 28 sidor
...state formed from the illegal territory could enter the Union or become equal with the original states. I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill admitting Louisiana as a state passes, the bonds of the Union are virtually dissolved; and that, as... | |
 | 1912 - 620 sidor
...Louisiana. The project of a Pelican State was provocation unendurable. Said Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, "If this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and as it will be the right of... | |
 | William Thomas Davis - 1895 - 866 sidor
...admission of Louisiana as a State, he announced for the first time the doctrine of secession. He saidi "I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion,...free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a departure, amicably... | |
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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... 
