 | James Abram Garfield - 1871 - 276 páginas
...principle it will be truly awful. But if this counti y cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Deep and strong was his devotion to liberty ; yet deeper and stronger still was his devotion to the... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1872 - 578 páginas
...will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can save it. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle — / was...solemnly, as he drew his tall form to its fullest height, " / have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, TO DIE... | |
 | William Cothren - 1872 - 821 páginas
...principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country can not be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 páginas
...upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country can not be saved without giving iip that principle — / was about to say I would rather...solemnly, as he drew his tall form to its fullest height, "/ have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God,iQ DIE... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 764 páginas
...from ruin. " But," he exclaimed, " if this country cannot be saved without giving up this principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. . . . My friends, I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 páginas
...basis, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it." Expressing the opinion that there need be no bloodshed or war, he said, " there will be no bloodshed... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1878 - 722 páginas
...from ruin. " But," he exclaimed, " if this country cannot be saved without giving up this principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. . . . My friends, I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 928 páginas
...the world if I can save it. But if this country cannot be saved ivithout gii'ing up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it." And then he added solemnly, as he drew his tall form to its fullest height, " / have said nothing but what I... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1880 - 520 páginas
...world, if -I can help to save it But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it." * And yet that is the principle which the Senate is now about to give up, — that principle which Abraham... | |
 | 1880 - 698 páginas
...principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity... | |
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But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. 
