 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...that principle, it will be truly awful ! But if this country cannot be saved without giving up the qually enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and the spot than surrender it.' ***** I have said nothing but what I am willing to live bv, and if it... | |
 | American literature - 1894 - 612 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...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 ;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 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...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;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 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...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 favour of such a course... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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...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 favour of such a course... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 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...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 ;... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...the weight should be lifted from the shoulders of all men. And he added : " If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it." Only those few who knew at that time of the wicked plot against his life, noticed the allusion to what... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 584 pages
...upon that principle, it will be truly awful! But if this country cannot be saved without giving up the principle, I was about to say : "I would rather be assassinated on the spot, than surrender it." ... I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and if it be... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...to save it. If it cannot be saved on that basis, it will be truly awful. But, if this 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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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. 
