... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated... State Normal Monthly - Page 20by Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898Full view - About this book
| 623 pages
..."Our country is too large to have all of its affairs directed by a single government," 15 he insisted. "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little...great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power," he warned, "it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on... | |
| 1902 - 810 pages
...to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one." Overruling their former decisions, and under a miserable pretext which involved the distortion of a... | |
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