 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of pcace. harmony, and union. We have seen hanging on the verge of the government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while, in fact, it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step tended... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1880 - 670 pages
...Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmonv, and Union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1880 - 662 pages
...Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and Union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, tbe Congress of the United States, while la fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 832 pages
...not only knew, but had helped to form, Andrew Johnson used this language: "We have seen hanging upon the verge of the government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States." Who is the " government" upon the " verge " of which the President declares... | |
 | Nebraska State Historical Society - Nebraska - 1902 - 614 pages
...made to a speech at the White House, on a distinguished occasion, as follows: "We have seen hanging on the verge of the government, as it were, a body called...fact, it is a congress of only part of the states." The second specification charged the delivery of certain "intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 648 pages
...every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and Union. AVe have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1894 - 684 pages
...In a speech, August 18, 1 The senator's wife. lie treated it as a rump Congress, as " hanging upon the verge of the government, as it were ; a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States." Then followed in September his political tour, his " swinging round the circle,"... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1894 - 682 pages
...reconstruction. In a speech, August 18, 1 The senator's wife. he treated it as a rump Congress, as " hanging upon the verge of the government, as it were ; a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States." Then followed in September his political tour, his " swinging round the circle,"... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...seen hanging upon the verge of the °vernment, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, 6 Congress of the United States, while, in fact, it is a congress . °nly a part of the States." K The elections in the fall largely 1-'I'eased the Republican majority... | |
 | Social sciences - 1896 - 566 pages
...government, every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony and union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and... | |
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We have witnessed in one department of the Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, the Congress of the... 
