 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...  Readings in American Government and Politics - Page 69by Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 624 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...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...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 O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb most be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely...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,... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...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 might become...Nation. " Right or wrong I assumed this ground, and now I avow it. I could not feel to the best of my ability I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best... | |
 | Henry C. Lockwood - Presidents - 1884 - 504 pages
...save the Government and the Union." * In the course of a debate which arose a few months later * * * * I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of tin; nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...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 tbat measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...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...measures, otherwise Unconstitutional, might become laAvful, by becoming Indispensable to the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. " Right... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1888 - 834 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...emancipate the negro. Writing of the matter in 1864 he very simply and fully stated his own position: "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it because I did... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Politics and government - 1891 - 770 pages
...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...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wroug I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had... | |
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