 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...often a limb must be amputated to save life, but a life is not wisely giren to save a limb. I feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...Nation. " Right or wrong I assumed this ground, and now I avow it. I could not feel to the best of my ability I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...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 even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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...life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt tbat measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation... | |
 | Henry C. Lockwood - Presidents - 1884 - 504 pages
...save the Government and the Union." * In the course of a debate which arose a few months later * * * * I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of tin; nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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...measures, otherwise Unconstitutional, might become laAvful, by becoming Indispensable to the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. " Right... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Political corruption - 1888 - 786 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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 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 preserve slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1888 - 834 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...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...emancipate the negro. Writing of the matter in 1864 he very simply and fully stated his own position: "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it because I did... | |
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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... 
