| Frank Moore - Orators - 1858 - 658 pages
...make requisitions and they are not complied with, what is to he done ? It has been well observed, that to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts, or any large State, should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them... | |
| Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 618 pages
...make requisitions and they are not complied with, what is to be done ? It has been well observed, that Suppose Massachusetts, or any large State, should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them... | |
| Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 434 pages
...which it might be bound. " Mr. Alexander Hamilton, of the convention, said — " It has been observed, to coerce the states is one of the maddest projects...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war 1 Suppose Massachusetts, or any large state, should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
| Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 pages
...requisitions, and they are not complied with, what is to be done ? It lias been well observed, that to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. But can we believe that one State will ever suffer itself to be used as an instrument of coercion ?... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 582 pages
...If you make requisitions, and they are not complied with, what is to be done ? It has been observed, to coerce the states is one of the maddest projects...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war ? Suppose Massachusetts, or any large state, should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
| George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 pages
...speaking on this subject, said : — It has been observed, to coerce States is one of the maddest projects ever devised. A failure of compliance will never be...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts or any large State should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
| George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 396 pages
...speaking on this subject, said : — It has been observed, to coerce States is one of the maddest projects ever devised. A failure of compliance will never be...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war ? Suppose Massachusetts or any large State should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...coercion, ALEXANDER HAMILTON said : " It has been observed, to coerce the States is one of the saddest projects that was ever devised. A failure of compliance...will never be confined to a single State ; this being tha-*ase, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts, or any larger State... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1864 - 286 pages
...coercion, ALEXANDER HAMILTON said: " It has been observed, to coerce the Spates is one of the saddest projects that was ever devised. A failure of compliance...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts, or any larger State should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
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