 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 396 pages
...Perhaps the President himself was somewhat of this way of thinking. He once said: "I felt that measure, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by...of the Constitution through the preservation of the Union. . . . I was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 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 the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution t 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 the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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 the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 410 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...the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assume this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 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." OF HUMOR. v£T great deal has been said of Lincoln's keen appreciation of the wit and humor of others... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 428 pages
...Jonesboro Debate, Sept. 15, 1858, vol. IV, p. 60. LIFE MORE THAN LIMB By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. Letter to AG Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864, vol. X, p. 66. AN HONEST LAWYER OR Nor AT ALL Let no young man choosing... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1894 - 564 pages
...private feeling in violation of the Constitutional limitations of his civil power, unless, as he said, " measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." Thus when in 1861 Fre'mont in Missouri proclaimed emancipation to the slaves of persistent rebels,... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1896 - 576 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... | |
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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... 
