 ... this may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one state against another, to prevent their growing importance,...  Works - Page 13by Washington Irving - 1857Full view - About this book
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 494 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of ' European politics, which may play one...prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own r interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment,... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 812 pages
...Governors of the States at the close of the war said: "With this conviction of the importance of the coming crisis, silence in me would be a crime. I will therefore speak to your excellency the language of freedom and sincerity without disgrace. There are four things which... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one State against another . . . For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 pages
...the Governors of the States: " Convinced of the importance of the crisis, silence in me," he said, " would be a crime. I will, therefore, speak the language of freedom and sincerity." He set forth the need of union in a strain that touched the quick of sensibility; he held up the citizens... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 278 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one State against another . . . For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall;... | |
 | James Robert Bent Hathaway - Genealogy - 1901 - 664 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the Confederation and exposing us to become the sport of European politics which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes; for according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment they will stand or fall... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 568 pages
...relaxing the powers of the union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall;... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Political Science - 1904 - 580 pages
...relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one...importance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall;... | |
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