 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1832 - 844 pages
...To say that any state may at plea<nr«j secede from the Union, is to say that the United States arc not a nation ; because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might diisolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruio, without committing any offence.... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 432 pages
...but it is an offence against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a...contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence. Secession,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...Union. To sny that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States arc not a Nation ; because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any otTence. Secession,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 502 pages
...; because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without...offence. Secession, like any other revolutionary act, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression ; but to call it a Constitutional right is confounding... | |
 | Philo Ashley Goodwin - Presidents - 1833 - 484 pages
...but it is an offence against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation ; because it will be a solecism to contend that one part of the nation might -dissolve its connexion with the other... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - Nullification - 1834 - 396 pages
...it is an 86 offence against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a...contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence. Secession,... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - United States - 1834 - 798 pages
...but it is an offence against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a...contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence. Secession,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 810 pages
...but it is an offence against the whole union. To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the union, is to say that the United States are not a...contend, that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence. Secession,... | |
 | William Jackson,1835 - 1835 - 814 pages
...but it is an offence against the whole union. To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the union, is to say that the United States are not a...contend, that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence. Secession,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson - United States - 1835 - 292 pages
...but it is an offence against the whole union. To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the union, is to say that the United States are not a...contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connexion with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence. Secession,... | |
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To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation... 
