 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 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... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...possible to lose the nation, and yet preBerve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected: yet often a limb must be amputated to save...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... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution 'I By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to...might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preser-' vation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming mdispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the...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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I...could not feel, that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 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...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 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...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 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...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...possible to lose the Nation, and yet preHcrve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...the Nation, and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law life and limb must be protected ; vet 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 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. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional... 
