 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 874 pages
...asked, " 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...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." He added : " When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 874 pages
...asked, "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...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." He added : " When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 618 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 nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground. ... I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution,... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1899 - 484 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...otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indisBy ABRAHAM LINCOLN (18091865). This is a very cleai presentation of President Lincoln's attitude... | |
 | William Harrison Lambert - 1899 - 32 pages
...responsibilities by acts which he believed would conduce to the great end that he had in view. " I feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...or wrong I assumed this ground, and now avow it." Acting upon this theory, whilst he had abstained from striking at slavery as an evil in itself and... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 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...wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures I The three words in brackets are Lincoln's, the rest Chase's. See Warden's Chase, p. 513; on the making... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? * * * I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...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... | |
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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... 
