 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be . I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and wr withont any mutual relation ; the cement' is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and everything hastens... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another; that these...loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution. 2. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your governr ment may be one thing and their privileges another, that these...cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dir*solution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the... | |
 | John A. Marshall - History - 1881 - 836 pages
...statesman, Edmund Burke. " Let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and the people's privileges another ; that these two things may exist...and everything hastens to decay and dissolution." But I have been agreeably entertained by you until a late hour. We will talk over these matters soon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another; Unit these two things may exist without any mutual relation,...cohesion is loosened — and everything hastens to deciiy and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...you, and no power under heaven will be able to tear them from your allegiance." But, continued he, " the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution," if they are deprived of their privileges and subjected to wrong and oppression. The Union is only Voluntary... | |
 | History - 1883 - 538 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another, — that...loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution. — BUBKE. We are not to hope that we shall end this controversy without the sharpest, sharpest conflicts.... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 346 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these...the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 344 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these...the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 360 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these...the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign... | |
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Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government... 
