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 | George Washington - 1891 - 544 pages
...a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged some where a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as...authority of the State governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1894 - 684 pages
...each other." In another letter, to John Jay, he uses still more emphatic language: "I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere...authority of the state governments extends over the several states. . . . Retired as I am from the world, I frankly acknowledge I can not feel myself an... | |
 | William O. Howe - 1891 - 136 pages
...best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coersive powers. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole union in as enerpetic a manner as the authorV THE SYSTEM CONDEMNED. 66 several states. To be fearful of investing... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 412 pages
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 | 1895 - 622 pages
...presented to him by the State of Georgia. He was indeed " a great and good man." TUESDAY, AUGUST 1. which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic...authority of the State governments extends over the several States." — Washington to John Jay. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. At Alexandria: "August 5. — "Went... | |
 | Eliphalet Nott Potter - 1895 - 254 pages
...them. In 1786 he wrote Jay : " I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union...as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governmerits extends over the several States." Already had civil war loomed, and some demanded the... | |
 | Eben Greenough Scott - 1895 - 458 pages
...John Jay, in which the writer recognized as essential to our national existence a power which would " pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as...authority of the state governments extends over the several states." The debate drifted on in a colloquial way, with Clark, Pomeroy, Saulsbury, Sumner,... | |
 | 1900 - 568 pages
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 | George Washington - 1931 - 636 pages
...a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged some where a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as...authority of the State Governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities... | |
 | 1931 - 478 pages
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