| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 848 páginas
...the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot he saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot...without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. [Applause.] Now, in my view of the present... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 866 páginas
...the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved npon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot...without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. [Applause.] Now, in my view of the present... | |
| 1865 - 138 páginas
...the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, / was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of... | |
| 1865 - 1046 páginas
...liberty not alone to the people of this " country, but I hope to the world, for " all future time .... 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" JAMES MADISON (born 1751, died 1836),... | |
| David Brainerd Williamson - 1865 - 322 páginas
...basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world, if I can hulp to save it. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to suy that I would rather be assassinated upon the spot than to surrender it. I have said nothing but... | |
| Marvin Richardson Vincent - 1865 - 60 páginas
...the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say / would rather be, assassinated upon the spot than surrender it." I need not follow the great question... | |
| Troy (N.Y.). Citizens - 1865 - 404 páginas
...uttered words which sound prophetically after the occurrence which has so troubled the country — '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 his last words on the occasion... | |
| William James Potter - 1865 - 78 páginas
...that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men," — and then he added, — "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 closed the remarkable speech... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 páginas
...if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. Lut it this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. I have said nothing but what I am willing... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 886 páginas
...the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up thnt principle, I was about to say I would rather he assassinated on this spot than surrender it. [Applause.]... | |
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