 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 264 pages
...treasonable libel on the Government, declaring that, "under the pretence of the military necessity of a war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution...disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private rights alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired ; and that... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - United States - 1879 - 300 pages
...August 2gth. It came under the control of the Peace Democracy,2 and declared in its platform that it was the sense of the American people that, after four years of failure to restore the Union by war, during which the Constitution had been violated in all its parts under the plea of military necessity,... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 pages
...the rights of the States unimpaired." Making practical application of its doctrines, it resolved " That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 pages
...the rights of the States unimpaired." Making practical application of its doctrines, it resolved " That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself... | |
 | Eugene Virgil Smalley - Campaign literature - 1880 - 368 pages
...to protect the civil rights of citizens.] FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1864. THE WAR A FAILUSB. THIS convention does explicitly declare, as the sense...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretext of a military necessity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Campaign literature - 1880 - 232 pages
...1864.—The Democratic Convention at Chicago, August 29, 1864, adopted the following: " Resolved, That thia Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity or a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1888 - 262 pages
...resolutions, irm our unswerving devotion to utioa, and the indissoluble Union Democratic. 1864 — That this convention does explicitly declare ,as the...of failure to restore the Union by the experiment oficar, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity of war power higher than the Constitution,... | |
 | Republican Congressional Committee - Campaign literature - 1880 - 240 pages
...etc." Democratic. PART II. The Rebellion. 1*JG4— That this convention does explicitly declare, ae the sense of the American people, that after four...failure to restore the Union by the experiment of toar, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war-power higher than the Constitution,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 586 pages
...equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the states, both northern and southern. Resolved, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of a war power higher than the constitution, the constitution itself... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1883 - 654 pages
...agreed at Niagara that Pompey should do at Chicago. Here is what he actually did : — " Resolved, That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the...which, under the pretence of a military necessity of war, a power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every... | |
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American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity or warpower higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part,... 
