...protect the rights of slave-holders in all the territories. The Bell party had for their platform : " The Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." Union, seceded, but the Federal government, denying that right, raised armies and enforced its authority....

...recog1 Greeley's Amur. Conflict, L 326. 3 Ibid. i. 306, 307. nize no political principle other than the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." This party gathered nearly all the peaceable elements of the community; it assumed a deprecatory attitude...

...been Know Nothings. It adopted a very brief platform, recognizing "no political principle other than the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws," and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for the presidency. The Republican convention met in Chicago on...

...been Know Nothings. It adopted a very brief platform, recognizing "no political principle other than the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws," and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for the presidency. The Republican convention met in Chicago on...

...known as the " Constitutional Union Party," proclaimed as its platform the following vague sentence : "The constitution of the country, the union of the States and the enforcement ofthe laws." The convention of this party met at Baltimore, and nominated for the Presidency John Bell,...

...Vice-Prcaident. This was chiefly meant to he a conservative ticket, and pledged simply to uphold " the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws," without going into any particulars as to the application of the Constitution and the laws, to the questions...

...Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President, upon a platform stripped of all complications and pledged to "the Constitution of the country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." And another National Convention had met at Chicago, May 16th, and nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois,...

...Everett of Massachusetts entirely ignoring slavery and recognizing no principles except " the union of the country, the union of the States and the enforcement of the laws." the responsible position assigned me comes without conditions, save only such honorable ones as are fairly...

...The platform of the party was of the most general character, recognizing " no political principle but the Constitution of the country, the union of the States and the enforcement of laws." In the election it carried Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, but failed utterly in the North....

...President and Edward Everett of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. This party declared that it stood for the Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws. The American party exerted but little influence in the election, because it did not touch the question...