 | Hiram Ketchum - Campaign literature - 1864 - 80 pages
...effect, affirms that it was impossible to keep this oath without losing the nation. He maintains " that measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become...Constitution through, the preservation of the nation. EIGHT OR WRONG," he declares, " I ASSUMED THIS GROUND, AND NOW AVOW IT." This ยก8 a bold avowal to... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability, imposed upon.me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means,...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... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 24 pages
...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...could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...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...could not feel that, to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...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...could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...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...could not feel that, to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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 amputated to...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | 1865 - 516 pages
...possible to loso the nation and yet preserve the Constitution / By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...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...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... | |
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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 unconstitutional... 
