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 consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national... The Congressional Globe - Page 425by United States. Congress - 1833Full view - About this book
| Samuel M. Wolfe - Slavery - 1860 - 286 pages
...interests. '"In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our viev that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the...consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our property, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously... | |
| United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - Political Science - 1941 - 904 pages
...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...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention... | |
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 510 pages
...interests. In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." ( Federalist, page 49 1 .) Norria vs. Doniphan. tional authority, on certain subjects. The organs of... | |
| New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 136 pages
...our view that which appears to us the greatest interest to every true American — the consideration of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity,...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the convention... | |
| United States. National Park Service - Constitutions - 1976 - 378 pages
...with the Constitution when he submitted it to the Continental Congress. Its purpose, he wrote, was the "consolidation of our Union, in which is involved...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." Arguments were important, but the actual process of ratification involved practical politics. SOME... | |
| Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...our deliberations on this subject," say they, "we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention... | |
| Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 pages
...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...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 846 pages
...subject [differences among the several states] we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union." A gentlemen's agreement over language is also a national consensus in spite of difference. The litany... | |
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