 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...of it while it thus remains practically immaterial could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may hereafter become, that question is bad as a basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at all — a mere pernicious abstraction. We all agree... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no 'effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded states, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | John Huston Finley - Democracy - 1919 - 374 pages
...immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, 5 whatever it may hereafter become, that question is...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that 10 the sole object of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 pages
...could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may become, that question is bad as the basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at all—a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1922 - 724 pages
...states, so called, are in the Union or out of it " was i86sl Johnson's Reconstruction Policy 505 " bad as the basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at Dunning's all — a mere pernicious abstraction." The states in question K"°nstruc. i . JT . , nan.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1926 - 544 pages
...of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever it may...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. And yet, whatever it may hereafter become, that question...abstraction. We all agree that the seceded states, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 530 pages
...the quibbling issue aside and passed directly to the heart of the case. That question, he remarked 'is bad as the basis of a controversy and good for...seceded states, socalled, are out of their proper relation to the union, and that the sole object of the government, civil and military, in regard to... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - Presidents - 1928 - 320 pages
...for the real and not the technical point at issue. That question [he declared] is bad as the basis of controversy and good for nothing at all — a merely...so-called, are out of their proper practical relation to the Union and that the sole object of the Government, civil and military ... is to again get them... | |
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As appears to me, that question has not been nor yet is a practically material one, and that any discussion of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no effect other than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever... 
