 I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle...  Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York - Page 6by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1833Full view - About this book
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the...destructive of the great object for which it was formed. * * * To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1090 pages
...to annul a law of the United States', assumed by one State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OP THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE...CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVEUY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH. IT WAS POUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED.... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1887 - 834 pages
...power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the...destructive of the great object for which it was formed." Gov. Ilayne, of South Carolina, issued a counter-proclamation, and a few days afterward Calhoun resigned... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1887 - 344 pages
...power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the...unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle upon which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." Some of the... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1888 - 602 pages
...of the Constitution, unauthorized by its tpirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it \oas founded, and destructive of the great object for which...After this general view of the leading principle, we most examine the particular application of it which is made in the ordinance. The preamble rests its... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - Washington (D.C.) - 1889 - 464 pages
...power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the...unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle upon which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." This message... | |
 | 1890 - 802 pages
...power to annul a law of the United States assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the...and destructive of the great object for which it was framed." President Jackson was equally clear and forcible in his historic proclamation against the... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864 - 1890 - 338 pages
...power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the...which it was founded, and destructive of the great objects for which it was formed." These were solemn words, and they were made more impressive by a... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...inconsistent leitk every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for whidi it was formed. " After this general view of the leading...application of it which is made in the ordinance. " 'I'ln- preamble rests its justification on those grounds : It assumes, as a fact, that tho obnoxious... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...contradicted exprcsaly by the leitrr of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent u-ith every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for irhich it was formed. " After this general view of the leading principle, we must examine the particular... | |
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