| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1846 - 396 pages
...extent, habits, and particular interests. 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 onsolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national... | |
| Sarah Mytton (Hughes) Maury ("Mrs. William Maury, "), Sarah Mytton Maury - Statesmen - 1847 - 282 pages
...consideration of the country, that " In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest...inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected." This, sir, is General Washington's consolidation. This is the true constitutional consolidation.... | |
| Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...congress the result of their labors, the framers say : " In all our deliberations we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest...American, the consolidation of our union, in which is in volved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." § 182. The above resolution... | |
| William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest...inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 582 pages
...consideration of the country, that, " In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest...inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected." This, Sir, is General Washington's consolidation. This is the true, constitutional consolidation.... | |
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest...inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 658 pages
...generation, and fervently to pray Heaven that the spirit which was in him may also be in us. pears to us the greatest interest of every true American,...inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 642 pages
...the plan of the Constitution : — " In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view. that which appears to us the greatest interest...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." You will please to observe, that this language is not applied to the powers of government ; it does... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 672 pages
...the plan of the Constitution : — " In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." You will please to observe, that this language is not applied to the powers of government ; it does... | |
| Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1851 - 26 pages
...United States to Congress, "in all our deliberations we have kept steadily in view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American,...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." I hear him say that to-day, and I hear him say further to-day, in the words of his Farewell Address,... | |
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