 In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence....  Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - Page 191by George Robertson - 1855 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety; perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply...magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected." This, sir, is General Washington's consolidation. This is the true constitutional consolidation. I... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible. That it will meet.the full and entire approbation of every state, is not, perhaps, to... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...our union, in which is " involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our na" tional existence. This important consideration^ seriously " and deeply...might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the con" stitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of " amity, and of that mutual deference... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 228 pages
...of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply...state in the convention to be less rigid on points of interior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the constitution, which we now... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...of our union, in which is involved our prosperty, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply...be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than nvght have been otherwise expected; and Urns the constitution, which we now present, is the result... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 562 pages
...of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each in the convention to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply...magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected." This, sir, is Gen. Washington's consolidation. This is the true constitutional consolidation. I wish... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety; perhaps our national existence. one under co TN the4 Convention to be less rigid, on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected."... | |
 | Benjamin Romaine - Nullification (States' rights) - 1832 - 68 pages
...our Union, in which is involved our '. prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national exist"ence. This important consideration, seriously and "deeply...Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior mag3 ::nitude, then might have been otherwise expected. " That it may promote the lasting welfare of... | |
 | Jared Sparks - France - 1832 - 554 pages
...all possible systems. They tell us in their President's letter of the seventeenth of September, 1787; 'The Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, nnd of that mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered... | |
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