 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Kight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I...could not feel, that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected : yet often a limb must be amputated to ' save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel, that, to the best... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected , yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preser-' vation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | Samuel Smith Nicholas - Law - 1865 - 232 pages
...means, that Government—that nation of which that Constitution was the organic law. •x-###-*##-x"I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might...the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation."—A. Lincoln. WHENCE this interpolation upon or new construction of the oath? The Constitution... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...a life is never widely given to Rave a limb. I felt tbat measures, otherwise unconstitutional, muht e harbor of Charleston," stating that " under present...they are a standing menace which renders negotiation Rigbt or wmng, I * • umi-'l tlii ground, and now avow It. I could not feel thn'. to tho best of my... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...general law, life ami limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to uve a life; bot t life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that meunres, otherwise unconstitutional, mi^ht become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...a ifo IB never wisely given to nave a limb. I felt that mcwures, otherwise unconstitutional, mi^ht become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through tho preservation of tbe nation. Right or wrong, I iis-umcd thia ground, and now avow it. I could not... | |
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Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet' preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise... 
