 | Theodore Burr Gates - United States - 1884 - 690 pages
...very carefully expressed on the great questions towards which all thoughts were directed. He said: "To the extent of my ability I shall take care, as...itself exp'ressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the United States be faithfully executed in all the States. The power confided to me will be used to hold,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and, ,to the extent of my ability, / shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly...Union shall be faithfully executed in all the States. * * * " I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...at every hazard. " I consider," he said, " that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...according to circumstances. I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...according to circumstances. I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be onlv a simple duty on my part; and... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 pages
...revolutionary according to circumstances. . . . That, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability, I shall...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. ... In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence,... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...according to circumstances. I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...according to circumstances. I therefore consider, that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken: and, to the extent of my ability I shall...enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union shall be faith fully executed in all the states. Doing this, which I deem to be only a simple duty on my part,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...amend it as follows: "I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States." Mr. Lincoln adopted the change. i<> This phrase originally... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...according to circumstances. " I therefore consider that, in view of the constitution and laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability, I shall...deem to be only a simple duty on my part, I shall peacefully perform it, so far as practicable, under my rightful masters, the American people; shall... | |
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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all... 
