AND

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BY

WILLIAM O. BATEMAN
COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW.

'ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.'

ANDREW JACKSON.

"The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union
composed of indestructible States.'-Opinion of the Supreme Court of the
United States in Texas v. White, 7 Wall. 721.

ST. LOUIS

G. L. JONES AND COMPANY

1876

то

EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN

WHO PREFERS THE GLORY OF HIS COUNTRY,

A CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

AND

'AN INDESTRUCTIBLE UNION OF INDESTRUCTIBLE STATES,'

ΤΟ

THE SYSTEM OF POLITICAL USURPATION

AND

OFFICIAL CORRUPTION

NOW FORESHADOWING THE COMING

EMPIRE,

THIS WORK IS

DEDICATED.