 | 1865 - 810 strani
...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, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now... | |
 | Hiram Ketchum - 1864 - 80 strani
...effect, affirms that it was impossible to keep this oath without losing the nation. He maintains " that measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through, the preservation of the nation. EIGHT OR WRONG," he declares, " I ASSUMED THIS... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 strani
...limb must bo amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the Nation.- Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 strani
...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...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel, that, to the best... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 strani
...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, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed tliis ground, and now... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 strani
...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 might become lawful...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 strani
...limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that , by tho forco of reasoning, my understanding can...convinced, I hero pledge myself to recant what I havo asse Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 strani
...be amputated to aare a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that matures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through tho preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed thb ground, and now... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 strani
...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, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now... | |
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I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. 
