 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel, that, to the best... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel, that, to the best... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preser-' vation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel, that, to the best... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...told us of his hesitations and doubts in a letter written not long (1864) before his death: "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed that ground, and now avow it. I could hot feel that, to av e oid... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...told us of his hesitations and doubts in a letter written not long (1864) before his death : " I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed that ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best... | |
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 478 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1893 - 776 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is n*.-vr wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional might become...lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of iliConstitntion through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong I a.snmed this ground, and now... | |
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I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. 
