 | 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - African Americans - 1865 - 64 pages
...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 to say I would rather be assassinated on the spot." And then, after adding that he had not expected to say a word, he repeated again the consecration... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 168 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 to say I would rather be assassinated on the spot." And then, after adding that he had not expected to say a word, he repeated again the consecration... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 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 to say I would rather be assassinated oh this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...myself one of the happiest men in the ' world if I can help to save it. But if this country cannot be ' saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say, I ' would rather be assassinated upon this spot than to surren'derit." It was proper that ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the champion of freedom,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...OF THE UNlVERSlTY OF " If this country cannot be sated without giving up the principle of Liberty, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it." From Mr. Lincoln'! Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, February 21, 1861. "I believe this Government... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...without giving up that principle, Iwas about to say, 1 would rather be assassinated on the spot than to surrender it. Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...without giving vp that principle, 1 was about to say, 1 would rather be assassinated on the spot than to surrender it. Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course,... | |
 | Marvin Richardson Vincent - 1865 - 60 pages
...lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say / would rather be, assassinated upon the spot than surrender it." I need not follow the great question... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 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 to say, / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present aspect... | |
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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. 
