 | 1865 - 810 psl.
...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...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,... | |
 | Hiram Ketchum - 1864 - 80 psl.
...effect, affirms that it was impossible to keep this oath without losing the nation. He maintains " that measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become...Constitution through, the preservation of the nation. EIGHT OR WRONG," he declares, " I ASSUMED THIS GROUND, AND NOW AVOW IT." This ¡8 a bold avowal to... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 psl.
...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...Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 psl.
...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...Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed tliis ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 psl.
...often a limb must bo amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...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 Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 psl.
...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...Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 psl.
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel, that, to the best... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 psl.
...be amputated to aare a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that matures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by...indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through tho preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed thb ground, and now AVOW it. I could not... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 506 psl.
...often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become...Constitution, through the preservation of the Nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability... | |
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I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. 
