 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, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 2771865Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of tin; nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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...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
...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...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong I assumed this... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. When, early in the war, General... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 280 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 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...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 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...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? 15y general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a lite, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,... | |
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