 | Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1838 - 284 pages
...4. In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...consolidation of our union, in which is involved our greatest prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. — This important consideration,... | |
 | Archibald Russell - Statistics - 1839 - 288 pages
...severed, and, according to Gen. Washington, " we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence ;" and at that time the American nation became one people. Had the first measure of Government been... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 710 pages
..." In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...led each State in the Convention to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the Constitution... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Economics - 1839 - 472 pages
...the framers say : " In all our deliberations we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." § 182. The above resolution in favor of a national government was strenuously opposed by several members... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1842 - 588 pages
...kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American, thq consolidation of our union, in which is involved our...led each State in the Convention to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the Constitution,... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1842 - 492 pages
..." In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view " that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, " the...of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, fe" licity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consid" eration, seriously and deeply... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...' In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that, which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.' Could this be attained consistently with the notion of an existing treaty or confederacy, which each... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...41 In all onr deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, and perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, Robert Yates - Constitutional history - 1844 - 370 pages
...interests. In all cur deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the...to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, tluui might have been otherwise expected; and thus the constitution, which we now present, is the result... | |
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In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national... 
