 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 796 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. Bat if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say, in advance, that there will... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 606 pages
...Declaration of Independence." Then lie referred to the doctrine of freedom in that instrument ; and he said : "But if this country can not be saved without giving...I was about to say I would rather be assassinated in this spot than surrender it. * * . * I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and if... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 pages
...Declaration of Independence." Then he referred to the doctrine of freedom in that instrument ; and he said : "But if this country can not be saved without giving...I was about to say I would rather be assassinated in this spot than surrender it. * * * I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and if... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - New Hampshire - 1870 - 694 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... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - New Hampshire - 1870 - 698 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 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 to say / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it."1 Then, after adding that he had not... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - United States - 1871 - 276 pages
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this counti y cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Deep and strong was his devotion to liberty ; yet deeper and stronger still was his devotion to the... | |
 | William Cothren - Bethlehem (Conn. : Town) - 1872 - 821 pages
...sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country p, but I hope to the world, for all future time. It was...affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, that there will... | |
 | William Cothren - Bethlehem (Conn. : Town) - 1872 - 878 pages
...Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but I hope t<> the world, for all future time. It was that which...affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, that there will... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 pages
...ever. If I should not speak then, it were useless for me to do so now." At Philadelphia again : — " Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course : and I may say, in advance, that there will... | |
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Now, my friends, can this country be saved on that basis ? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be... 
