 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...he referred to the doctrine of freedom in that instrument and he said: "But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. * * * I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - English language - 1890 - 530 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... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1865 - 400 pages
...save it. If it can't 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. * * * / have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1903 - 216 pages
...ken, when at Philadelphia, he reasserts his fealty to this same supreme law : " If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would be assassinated on the spot!" Then he repeated again his calm, serious, intelligent consecration to... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 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." All day Sunday the unending procession swept monotonously by the silent form, and then once more its... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...it. If it cannot &e •aved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this coontry 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 art'airs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There... | |
 | William Goodell Frost - 1891 - 50 pages
...equal chance. Now, my friends, can this country be saved on that basis? * * If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I had rather be assass-i nated on this spot than surrender it." In all these addresses Lincoln uttered... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved on that principle, it would 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." This was not the first time that he... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...this country, but, " I hope," he said, " to the world for all future time. 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 surrender it." When he died the veil that hid his greatness was torn aside, and... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 410 pages
...this country, but, " I hope," he said, " to the world for all future time. 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 surrender it." When he died the veil that hid his greatness was torn aside, and... | |
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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. 
