 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1880 - 670 pages
...Congress of only a part of the States. Wo havo Been this Congress pretend to be for the Union, wheu ita every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of the States inevitable. * * * We have seen Congress gradually encroach step by step upon constitutional rights, and violate,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 648 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | Social sciences - 1896 - 566 pages
...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 act tended...disunion and make a disruption of the States inevitable. Instead of promoting reconciliation and harmony, its legislation has partaken of the character of penalties,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 584 pages
...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 act tended...disunion and make a disruption of the States inevitable. » * * \Ve have seen Congress gradually encroach, step by step, upon constitutional rights, and violate,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 796 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 464 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 ;...; " "a Congress in a minority assuming to exercise power which, if allowed to be consummated, would result in despotism and monarch}' itself ; " "a Congress... | |
 | Orators - 1900 - 526 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 ;...; " "a Congress in a minority assuming to exercise power which, if allowed to be consummated, would result in despotism and monarchy itself ; " " a Congress... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 446 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 ;...every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion," ttand make a disruption of the States inevitable ; " "a Congress in a minority assuming to exercise... | |
 | William MacDonald - History - 1903 - 464 pages
...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 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,... | |
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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... 
