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" I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest... "
Annual Register - Page 212
edited by - 1862
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 pages
...oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules, and while I do not choose...as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will sensibilities of many friends, who would have much preferred to form an escort of 100,000 armed men...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress. Repr. . 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 pages
...oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose...in having them held to be unconstitutional. It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During...
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The American Crisis Considered

Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules ; and while I do not choose...in having them held to be unconstitutional. " It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During...
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Das Staatsarchiv, Volume 1

1861 - 456 pages
...by any hypercritical rules. And while 1 do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress us proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be...conform to, and abide by, all those acts which stand nnrepealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional....
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The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern ..., Volume 2

Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...mental reservations, and with no purpose to constrne the Constitution or laws by any bypercritical rules ; and, while I do not choose now to specify...enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, hoth in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed,...
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Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der officiellen Actenstücke zur ..., Volume 1

Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while 1 do not choose now to .specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be -''forced, I do suggest that it will he much safer for all, both in official •ind private stations,...
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The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with ..., Volume 1

Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules ; and while I do not choose...in having them held to be unconstitutional. "It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. During...
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The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a ..., Volume 1

1862 - 200 pages
...oath, to-day, with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to control the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and, while I do not choose...stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts that stand unrepealed, than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having tkem held to...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln

Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 pages
...oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose...in having them held to be unconstitutional. It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with uo purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules ; and while I do not choose...in having them held to be unconstitutional. It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During...
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