 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. 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 ; hot a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life ağd limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 478 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected ;...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1869 - 534 pages
...Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often must a limb be amputated to save life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might be lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 540 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. 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 life, but a life is not wisely giren to save a limb. I feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 906 pages
...Constitution was the Organic Law. " Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? " By General Law, life and limb must be protected; yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise Unconstitutional, might become laAvful, by becoming Indispensable to... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1888 - 834 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law life and limb must be protected, yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...crossing the river. (June, 1864.) 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 life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. (April, 1864.) With malice toward none, with... | |
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