 | Metropolitan Record, New York - United States - 1864 - 136 pages
...REPUGNANT TO THIS CONSTITUTION TO SUBVERT THE STATE GOVERNMENTS OR OPPRESS THE 'PEOPLE. THE COERCION OF STATES IS ONE OF THE MADDEST PROJECTS THAT WAS EVER DEVISED. A FAILURE OF COMPLIANCE WILL NEYER BE CONFINED TO A SINGLE STATE. THIS BEING THE CASE, CAN WE SUPPOSE IT WISE TO HAZARD A CIVIL... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 720 pages
...executed them so far as answered their particular convenience or advantage. * * * 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,... | |
 | United States - 1863 - 302 pages
...idea of giving the Federal Government power to use force against the legislative action of a State : "To coerce the States is one of the maddest projects...single State. This being the case, can we suppose it WHC to hazard a civil war? It woald be a nation at war with itself. Can any reasonable man be veil... | |
 | Charles Ingersoll - Democracy - 1875 - 310 pages
...Rhode Island and refused to ratify, in the same spirit with Mr. Madison, said.* " It has been observed, to coerce the States is one "of the maddest projects...compliance will never be confined " to a single State. . . . Here is a nation at war " with itself. Can any reasonable man be well '• disposed towards a... | |
 | Alexander Harris - Slavery - 1876 - 530 pages
...language in reference to the coercive power being entrusted to the General Government : " The coercion of States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. A failure of compliance will never be conned to a single State. This being the case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war ? It would... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 782 pages
...innocent and guilty, in the same calamity." * Mr. Hamilton, in the Convention of New York, said : " To coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. . . . What picture does this idea present to our view ? A complying State at war with a non-complying... | |
 | jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 pages
...innocent and guilty, in the same calamity." * Mr. Hamilton, in the Convention of New York, said : " To coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. . . . What picture does this idea present to our view ? A complying State at war with a non-complying... | |
 | John Francis Collin - 1883 - 330 pages
...succeeded in the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts. On the 232d and 233d pages Mr. Hamilton said that " to " coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that .was ever " devised. No reasonable man could be well disposed to a gov" ernment that can exist only by the sword." On the... | |
 | JOHN F COLLIN - 1883 - 336 pages
...succeeded in the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts. On the 232d and 233d pages Mr. Hamilton said that " to " coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever " devised. No reasonable man could be well disposed to a gov" eminent that can exist only by the sword." On the... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - History - 1890 - 554 pages
...to postpone it ; which was adopted item. con. Mr. Hamilton, in the New York Convention, said that " to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised." Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia, in the State Convention, eloquently protested against the idea... | |
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It has been observed to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. A failure of compliance will never be confined to a single State. This being the case can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose... 
