 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. 'Wiere is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say, in advance, that... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it [Applause.] Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awfuL But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it [Applause ] Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved on that basis, it will be truly awful. But, if tli is country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say that I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...save it. If it cannot he saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. [Applause.] Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need bo no bloodshed or war. There... | |
 | 1865 - 1046 pages
...people of this " country, but I hope to the world, for " all future time .... If this country " cannot be saved without giving up " that principle, I was...be assassinated on this " spot than surrender it" JAMES MADISON (born 1751, died 1836), third Virginian President, continues Jefferson much as John Adams... | |
 | William James Potter - 1865 - 82 pages
...would be lifted from the shoulders of all men," — and then he added, — "If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it," — and closed the remarkable speech with the solemn words : " I have said nothing but what I am willing... | |
 | Samuel Franklin Miller - Fast-day sermons - 1865 - 34 pages
...save it If it cannot be saved on that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it, This speech, wholly unprepared and almost prophetic, shows the inmost convictions of his heart. Yet... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved, without giving up that principle, I was...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. [Applause.] Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. [Applause.] Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There... | |
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But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. 
