 | Josiah Quincy - United States - 1874 - 436 pages
...their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, to it will be the duty of s»me to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably, if they can ; violently, if they must. [Mr. Quincy was here called to order by Mr. Pomdexter, delegate from the Mississippi Territory, for... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 438 pages
...dissolution of the Union ; that it will free the states from their moral obligations ; and, as it will then be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some,...— amicably if they can, violently if they must. The bill, if it passes, is a deathblow to the constitution. It may afterwards linger ; but, lingering,... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 452 pages
...dissolution of the Union ; that it will free the states from their moral obligations ; and, as it will then be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some,...prepare definitely for a separation, — amicably it they can, violently if they must. The bill, if it passes, is a deathblow to the constitution. It... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 436 pages
...dissolution of the Union; that it will free the states from their moral obligations ; and, as it will then be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation,—amicably if they can, violently if they must. The bill, if it passes, is a deathblow... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...virtually a dissolution of the Union ; that it will free the States from their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.1 AMJgrJ Cong.... | |
 | Kenneth McIntosh - Constitutional history - 1877 - 208 pages
...union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must." Here was secession... | |
 | John Campbell Butler - Georgia - 1879 - 394 pages
...Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will...separation, amicably, if they can, violently if they must." He was called to order by Mr. Poindexter, of Mississippi, who considered the utterance as very nearly... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1905 - 548 pages
...Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare defmitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must." He thus asserted the... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - American essays - 1867 - 538 pages
...Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.' Here Mr. Quincy... | |
 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - Mississippi - 1880 - 606 pages
...Union are virtually dissolved ! That the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must!" Mr. Poindexter,... | |
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I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be... 
