 ... and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it? Did we pledge ourselves...  Cobbett's Weekly Register - Page 1831833Full view - About this book
 | John Russell Hussey - United States - 1876 - 562 pages
...devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy, contrivance which this new doctrine would niake it? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy...bubble, that must be blown away by the first breath of dissatisfaction? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the work of the profound statesmen, the... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - Lectures and lecturing - 1877 - 470 pages
...the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrine would make the Constitution? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy...be blown away by the first breath of disaffection ? " He outlined the prosperity and happiness of the nation of which South Carolina was a part, and... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - Sermons, American - 1877 - 472 pages
...the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrine would make the Constitution ? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy...be blown away by the first breath of disaffection ? " He outlined the prosperity and happiness of the nation of which South Carolina was a part, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Campaign literature - 1880 - 108 pages
...importance to the Constitution of our country? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it?...Did the name of Washington sanction, did the States ratify, such an anomaly in the history of fundamental legislation ? No ! We were not mistaken. The... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Generals - 1880 - 410 pages
...country ? Was our devotion paid to the «vretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrme would make it ? Did we pledge ourselves to the support...Did the name of Washington sanction, did the states ratify, such an anomaly in the history of fundamental legislation ? No. We were not mistaken. The letter... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrine would make it...bubble that must be blown away by the first breath of d'.affection ? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory the work of the profound statesmen, the exalted... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Generals - 1880 - 414 pages
...country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrme would make it ? Did we pledge ourselves to the support...away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this seltdestroying, visionary theory, the work of the profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom... | |
 | Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrine would make it ? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of en airy nothing — a bubble that must be blown away by the first breaw of d'jaffection ? Was this... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it...profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom the tusk of constitutional reform was intrusted? Did the name of Washington sanction, did the States deliberately... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1090 pages
...of our country? Was our devotio to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy, contrivance which this new do would make it? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy noth a bubble that must be blown away by the first breath of disaffection? this self-destroying, visionary... | |
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