| Edward Wilmot Blyden - Liberia - 1865 - 86 pages
...with a sense of justice, the holy flame found vent in the memorable words : " If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle — I was about to say that I would rather be assassinated upon the spot than to surrender it." And the same unsullied integrity,... | |
| Troy (N.Y.). Citizens - 1865 - 404 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... | |
| George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 436 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. Lut il 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. I have said nothing but what I am willing... | |
| United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 764 pages
...sound prophetical after the occurrence which has so troubled the country : "If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it ;" and his last words on the occasion were, " I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by,... | |
| United States dept. of state - 1866 - 760 pages
...which sound prophetical after the occurrence which has eo troubled the country: "If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it;" and his last words on the occasion were, " I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and,... | |
| United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 764 pages
...sound prophetical after the occurrence •which has so troubled the country: "If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it ;" and his last words on the occasion were, " I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up this principle, I was about to say, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. . . . My friends, I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure... | |
| United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 772 pages
..."If this country cannot be saved without giving up the principle of the Declaration of Independence, I was about to say, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it ;" and the sacrifice was accepted. For refusing to give up that principle — the vital principle of... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 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 / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it." — Speech at Philadelphia in ' Independence... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - United States - 1866 - 314 pages
...sound prophetically after the occurrence which has so troubled the country — "If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say, / wnuld rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it" — and his last words on the occasion... | |
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