 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
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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 - Illinois - 1894 - 410 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 assume this... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 428 pages
...treated as a wrong. Reply at Jonesboro Debate, Sept. 15, 1858, vol. IV, p. 60. LIFE MORE THAN LIMB By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. Letter to AG Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864, vol. X, p. 66. AN HONEST LAWYER OR Nor AT ALL Let no young man choosing... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 pages
...1864, CONCERNING EMANCIPATION. "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." OF HUMOR. v£T great deal has been said of Lincoln's keen appreciation of the wit and humor of others... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1896 - 576 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 this... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 874 pages
...the President. "Was it possible," he asked, " 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." He added : " When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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,...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 874 pages
...AG Hodges, April 4, 1864. sible," he asked, "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." He added : " When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it,... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - Business & Economics - 1898 - 408 pages
...that it grew in his mind to be, as the long struggle wore on. He came to feel, as he wrote in 1864, "that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." This is a doctrine without limits, in the mouth of a military commander... | |
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