 | American literature - 1888 - 1008 pages
...most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles...to that policy, I must surrender the case itself. . . . The four persons in question are now held in military custody at Fort Warren, in the State of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain these principles and adhere to that policy, I must surrender...this Government could not deny the justice of the claims presented to us in this respect, upon its merits. We are asked to do to th& British nation just... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880 - 496 pages
...with the law of nations. ' It will be seen,' Mr. Seward went on to say, ' that this Government cannot deny the justice of the claim presented to us, in...its merits. We are asked to do to the British nation what we have always insisted all nations ought to do unto us.' He announced, therefore, that the four... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1881 - 708 pages
...with the law of nations. " It will be seen," Mr. Seward went on to say, "that this Government cannot deny the justice of the claim presented to us, in...its merits. We are asked to do to the British nation what we have always insisted all nations ought to do unto us." He announced, therefore, that the four... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - Canada - 1883 - 648 pages
...strictly following British precedents. " It will be seen," he added, " that this government cannot deny the justice of the claim presented to us, in...its merits. We are asked to do to the British nation what we have always insisted all nations ought to do unto us." Therefore, as we have already seen,... | |
 | George B. Herbert - United States - 1884 - 422 pages
...forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain these principles and adhere to that policy, I must surrender...this Government could not deny the justice of the claims presented to us in this respect upon its merits. We are asked to do to the British nation just... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1884 - 818 pages
...with the law of nations. " It will be seen," Mr. Seward went on to say, " that this government cannot deny the justice of the claim presented to us, in...its merits. We are asked to do to the British nation what we have always insisted all nations ought to do unto us." He announced, therefore, that the four... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles...to that policy, I must surrender the case itself/ The North, with high confidence in their President and Cabinet, readily conceded the wisdom of the... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles...to that policy, I must surrender the case itself/ The North, with high confidence in their President and Cabinet, readily conceded the wisdom of the... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. If I maintain these principles and adhere to that policy, I must surrender the case itself. Therefore, the persons held in military custody in Fort Warren will be cheerfully liberated." This... | |
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If I decide this case in favor of my own government, I must disavow its most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country caunot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles, and adhere to that policy,... 
