Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot... Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A - Page 82by Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 196 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved...in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...happiest men in the world if I can help to 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 abont to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country caunot be saved without giving up that principle, 1 was about to say I would rather be assassinated on...in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of snch a course, und... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 796 pages
...happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved...in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...save it. If it can not be saved on that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country can not be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is 110 necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and... | |
| 1864 - 794 pages
...happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved...in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and... | |
| David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 208 pages
...happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved...in my view of the present 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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awfuL But if this country cannot be saved...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 - 514 pages
...happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved...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
...I can help to 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... | |
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