 | 1865 - 810 pages
...my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did not understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 pages
...my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath...question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many tirrr^, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 pages
...view that I might take the oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge in primary, abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did not understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed... | |
 | 1865 - 516 pages
...the oath in using the power. I understood, too, tluit in ordmary civil administration this oath eveu forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did not understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the hest of my ability impised... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 866 pages
...my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath...slavery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in niiMiy ways.' And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1865 - 636 pages
...nor was it in my view to take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power." Hence " I aver that, to this day, I have done no official...deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery." And then he explains that he believes the constitution authorises the President when, " in cases of... | |
 | 1865 - 866 pages
...my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration, this oath...practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the nioral question of slavery, I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways. And I aver that,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 886 pages
...my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath...practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the mural question of shivery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 680 pages
...forbad* me to pructicaily iudulg • my primiry abstract j augment on the moral question of ulrm-ry. I had publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to it,!» day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstruct judgment and feeling on slavery... | |
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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 break the oath in... 
