 | United States. Congress - Law - 1868 - 548 pages
...States, while in fact it is a Congross of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of tho States inevitable." * • • • " We have seen Congress gradually encroach step by step upon... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 1170 pages
...graver matter of the assertion of the right to cast contumely upon Congress; to denounce it as a ubody hanging on the verge of the Government ;" " pretending...be a Congress when, in fact, it was not a Congress ;" aa Congress pretending to be for the Union when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion,"... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 776 pages
...the graver matter of the assertion of the right to cast contumely upon Congress ; to denounce it as a " body hanging on the verge of the government ;" " pretending to be a Congress when in fact it was riot a Congress ;" "a Congress pretending to be for the Union when its every step and act tended to... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1868 - 140 pages
...Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when iu every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of tho States inevitable. * * * Wo have seen Congress gradually encroach step by step upon constitutional... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1869 - 838 pages
...while in fact it is a Congress of only a part, of the Slates. We have seen this Congress pretend to bo for the Union, when its every step and act tended...disunion and make a disruption of the States inevitable. * * * We have seen Congress gradually encroach step by step upon constitutional rights, and violate,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1869 - 650 pages
...States, while in fact it is a Congress of only part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of States inevitable. We have seen Congress gradually encroach, step by step, upon constitutional rights,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1869 - 672 pages
...States, while in fact it is a Congress of only part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of States inevitable. We have seen Congress gradually encroach, step by step, upon constitutional rights,... | |
 | David Nelson Camp - Almanacs, American - 1869 - 844 pages
...States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congre^ pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion aud make a disruption of the Slates inevitable. * * * We have seen Congress gradually encroach step... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend n | $ | $ x| $ Instead ot promoting reconciliation and harmony, its legislation has partaken of the character of penalties,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States. We have seen this Congress pretend to lie for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion anil make a disruption of the States inevitable Instead ol promoting reconciliation and harmony, its... | |
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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 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... 
