 It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 2771865Full view - About this book
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 654 pages
...using the power. I understand, too, that in ordinary and civil administration this oath even forbids me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment...question of slavery. I had publicly declared this at many times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...States. ... I understand, too, that in ordinary and civil administra tion this oath eren forbids nir to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment...question of slavery. I had publicly declared this at many times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - 1885 - 30 pages
...constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it in my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power." In February, 1865, he brought me several notes, and said they were the correspondence growing out of... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the Office without taMng the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an...get power, and break the oath in using the power. Slavery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. " And I aver that, to this day,... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 130 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power. I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me practically... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 140 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power. I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me practically... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1892 - 790 pages
...the best of my abliity preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my pi imary, abstract judgment, on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times,... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it in my view that I might take the oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understand, too, that in ordinary and civil administration this oath even forbids me to practically... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - African Americans - 1893 - 372 pages
...the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution; and he did not feel that he might "take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power." Neither did he feel, however, that he could be said even to have tried to preserve the... | |
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