 | William MacDonald - Charters - 1908 - 654 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... | |
 | Winfield Scott Kerr - Cabinet officers - 1908 - 474 pages
...States in rebellion were not represented, and finally the President declared, "we have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called, or what assumed to be, the Congress of the United States, while in fact, it is a Congress of only a part... | |
 | George Henry Haynes - 1909 - 484 pages
...and in his speeches had repeatedly referred to Congress in most contemptuous terms 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 United States. ' ' Shortly after the completion of this unprecedented tour, Sumner delivered... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 498 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... | |
 | Horace White - Legislators - 1913 - 516 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 assumed to be, the Congress of the United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1916 - 688 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... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1916 - 688 pages
...government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the gov-ernment, 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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 732 pages
...speeches, especially during the political campaign of 1866, when he said, "We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called,...assumes to be, the Congress of the United States." He did himself more harm than good ; for in 1866 a Republican and anti-Johnson two-thirds majority... | |
 | American literature - 1908 - 788 pages
...RECONSTRUCTION POLICY vent the restoration of peace, harmony, and union," he said. "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 United States. We have seen a Congress in a minority assume to exercise power which,... | |
 | Robert Watson Winston - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 620 pages
...the rapier of the Radicals soon pierced. In the course of his speech he had said that Congress was "a body called or which assumes to be the Congress of the United States, but in fact a Congress of only a part of the states, a body hanging on the verge of government." Why,... | |
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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... 
