 | United States - Naval law - 1875 - 388 pages
...I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance,...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1875 - 664 pages
...I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States si nee I have been a citizeu thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance,...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise, the functions of any... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 672 pages
...I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance,...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 584 pages
...I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance,...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 818 pages
...a delegate to any convention, voted for or signed any ordinance of secession, or who gave voluntary aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility to the United States, or who accepted or attempted to exercise the functions of any office, civil or military, under any... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 672 pages
...a delegate to any convention, voted for or signed any ordinance of secession, or who gave voluntary aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility to the United States, or who accepted or attempted to exercise the functions of any office, civil or military, under any... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 954 pages
...I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance,...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...positive enactment requires that every Senator, before admission to his seat, shall swear that he has "voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or...persons engaged in armed hostility" to the United States.1 Here is little more than an interpretation of the Constitution. The conclusion is plain. No... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 418 pages
...I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance,...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office... | |
 | History - 1901 - 664 pages
...I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance,...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the function of any office... | |
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I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended... 
