 | Robert A. McGuire - 2003 - 416 pages
...difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this...consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun, Clyde Norman Wilson - 1959 - 270 pages
...object was to continue the then existing union. In their letter, laying it before Congress, they say,— "In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept...every true American, the consolidation of our union." "Our union," can refer to no other than the then existing union,— the old union of the confederacy,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 2003 - 766 pages
...was to continue the then existing union. In their letter, laying it before Congress, they say, — "In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept...every true American, the consolidation of our union." "Our union," can refer to no other than the then existing union, — the old union of the confederacy,... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 2003 - 808 pages
...difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved. And on the present occasion this...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 2008 - 361 pages
...states, "their Situation Extent Habits and particular Interests," the Convention had, Morris wrote, "kept steadily in our View that which appears to us...Consolidation of our Union in which is involved our Prosperity Felicity Safety perhaps our national Existence." Above all, the Constitution now presented... | |
 | J. H. H. Weiler, Marlene Wind - 2003 - 256 pages
...surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the several States as to their...deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 2004 - 762 pages
...difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved. And on the present occasion this...interests. " In all our deliberations on this subject we have kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American.... | |
 | Jackson Turner Main - 2004 - 340 pages
...was exercised, nor ever exer27. Washington's letter which was sent forth with the Constitution read, "In all our deliberations on this subject we kept...every true American, the consolidation of our Union," Ford, ed., Journals of Congress, XXXIII, 502. The word may have been innocently used, in the sense... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - 2004 - 68 pages
...a letter prepared by the convention to explain the convention's actions: "In all our deliberations we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to...consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important considerat1on, seriously... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 pages
...difficult to draw, with precision, the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests." The debates of that period will show that the effect of the slave votes upon the political influence... | |
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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... 
