...a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged some where a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as...State governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national...

...a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged some where a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as...State governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national...

...uses still more emphatic language: " I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union...state governments extends over the several states. . . . Retired as I am from the world, I frankly acknowledge I can not feel myself an unconcerned spectator....

...long and arduous path of duty which opened before them. In 1786 he wrote Jay : " I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged...as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governmerits extends over the several States." Already had civil war loomed, and some demanded the...

...presented to him by the State of Georgia. He was indeed " a great and good man." TUESDAY, AUGUST 1. which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic...State governments extends over the several States." — Washington to John Jay. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. At Alexandria: "August 5. — "Went to Alexandria to...

...John Jay, in which the writer recognized as essential to our national existence a power which would " pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as...state governments extends over the several states." The debate drifted on in a colloquial way, with Clark, Pomeroy, Saulsbury, Sumner, Davis, Johnson,...

...conceive that we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere the power which will pervade the Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State government extends over the several States." As l have said above, Massachusetts dealt with her insurgents...

...conceive that we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere the power which will pervade the Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the state government extends over the several states." M'EC IAI. ADDRESS. put himself at the head of the army...

...General despaired (almost) of America's fighting a war or even existing as a nation without, he wrote, "having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade...state governments extends over the several states." Washington had tried to persuade his New Jersey troops to swear allegiance to the union and they had...

...to act authoritatively in any respect brought a sharp comment from Washington : "I do not conceieve we can exist long as a nation without having lodged...somewhere a power which will pervade the whole union in an energetic manner as the authority of the state governments extends over the several states." It...