 | Henry C. Lockwood - Presidents - 1884 - 504 pages
...save the Government and the Union." * In the course of a debate which arose a few months later * * * * I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of tin; nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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 tbat measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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...measures, otherwise Unconstitutional, might become laAvful, by becoming Indispensable to the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. " Right... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1888 - 634 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...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong I assumed this ground, and now avow it I could not feel that to the best of my ability... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...emancipate the negro. Writing of the matter in 1864 he very simply and fully stated his own position: "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it because I did... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 280 pages
...in what is called the Hodges letter, concerning the freedom of the slaves, he used this language : " I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable." Briefly stated, that was the strain of my argument. My judgment was formed on the law of nations and... | |
 | Emma Mary Connelly - Kentucky - 1890 - 356 pages
...slavery, yet imposed on him the duty of preserving the Government and Nation; and measures otherwise 237 unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution and Nation. Early in the war when General Fremont proposed military emancipation he had forbidden it... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Politics and government - 1891 - 770 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...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wroug I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1892 - 790 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...the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assume this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 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...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
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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... 
