 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ;...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 24 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 864 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected ;...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...defence, saying, in April, 1864, " Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preBerve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected: yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ;...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ,...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution 'I By general law, life and limb must be protected ;...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life ana, limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
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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. 
