| Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 720 pages
...yet, gentlemen, I fear its importance has been but insufficiently appreciated." Further on he says : " How absurd it is to suppose that when different parties...purposes, either can disregard any one provision, fmd expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I intend, for one, to regard, and maintain,... | |
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 702 pages
...gentlemen, T feai its importance has been but insufficiently appreciated." Further on fye says : " How absurd it is to suppose that when different parties enter into a Compact for certain purposes, eithei can disregard any one provision, and expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Legislators - 1870 - 762 pages
...that no judicial process could compel them to do their duty, and what remedy would the South have ? " How absurd it is to suppose that, when different parties...expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I intend, for one, to regard, and maintain, and carry out, to the fullest extent, the Constitution... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Legislators - 1870 - 770 pages
...no judicial process could compel them to do their duty, and what remedy would the South have? '• How absurd it is to suppose that, when different parties...purposes, either can disregard any one provision, anJ expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I intend, for one, to regard, and maintain,... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 766 pages
...that no judicial process could compel them to do their duty, and what remedy would the South have? " How absurd it is to suppose that, when different parties enter into a compact for certain purposes, cither can disregard any one provision, and expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I... | |
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1872 - 286 pages
...and still bind the other side." In the previous part of the same speech it is admitted that he said: "How absurd it is to suppose that when different parties...expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I intend, for :one, to regard, .and maintain, and carry out, to the fullest extent, the Constitution... | |
| Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 672 pages
...speech at Capon Springs, in Virginia, on the 28th of June, 1851, in alluding to this subject, he said, " How absurd it is to suppose that, when different parties...compact for certain purposes, either can disregard any provision; and expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest! I intend, for one, to regard and... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1872 - 948 pages
...that no judicial process could compel them to do their duty, and what remedy would the South hare? " How absurd it is to suppose that, when different parties...compact for certain purposes, either can disregard uny one provision, and expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I intend, for one, to... | |
| Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 672 pages
...Springs, in Virginia, on the 28th of June, 1851, in alluding to this subject, he said, " How atyurd it is to suppose that, when different parties enter...compact for certain purposes, either can disregard any provision, and expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest ! I intend, for one, to regard and... | |
| Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 560 pages
...Again, in 1851, Webster expressed similar views in a speech made at Capon Springs, Virginia. He said : " How absurd it is to suppose that when different "parties...expect, " nevertheless, the other to observe the rest" " I have not hesitated to say, and I repeat, that if " the Northern States refuse, wilfully and deliberately,... | |
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