 | Albert Shaw - 1892 - 790 strani
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 strani
...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...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 strani
...in what is called the Hodges letter, concerning the freedom of the slaves, he used this language : " I felt that measures otherwise Unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable." Briefly stated, that was the strain of my argument. My judgment was formed on the law of nations and... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 strani
...in what is called the Hodges letter, concerning the freedom of the slaves, he used this language : " I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable." Briefly stated, that was the strain of my argument. My judgment was formed on the law of nations and... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1893 - 776 strani
...and limh must he rr>tccted, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is n*.-vr wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures,...lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of iliConstitntion through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong I a.snmed this ground, and now... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1897 - 792 strani
...Renerai 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...otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by In-coming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the, nation.... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 strani
...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 - 410 strani
...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...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 strani
...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...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,... | |
 | John Lord - 1894 - 564 strani
...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,... | |
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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... 
