| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 páginas
...save it ; if it cannot be saved on that 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 upon this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 páginas
...Declaration of Independence." Then lie referred to the doctrine of freedom in that instrument ; and he said : "But if this country can not be saved without giving...I was about to say I would rather be assassinated in this spot than surrender it. * * . * I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and if... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 páginas
...Declaration of Independence." Then he referred to the doctrine of freedom in that instrument ; and he said : "But if this country can not be saved without giving...I was about to say I would rather be assassinated in this spot than surrender it. * * * I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and if... | |
| Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1870 - 694 páginas
...to save it. If it cannot be saved on that basis, it will be truly awful. But, if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say that I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 558 páginas
...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, I was about to say / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it."1 Then, after adding that he had not... | |
| Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1870 - 698 páginas
...to save it. If it cannot be saved on that basis, it will be truly awful. But, if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say that I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present... | |
| James Abram Garfield - 1871 - 276 páginas
...save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this counti y cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about...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
...world if I can save it. 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." And then, after a few more words, he added solemnly, as he drew his tall form to its fullest height,... | |
| John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 páginas
...basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world, if I can help to save it. But, if this country can not be saved without giving...I was about to say, I would rather be assassinated upon this spot than to surrender it." He passes on, assumes the reins of government as the constitutionally... | |
| John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 páginas
...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 be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.'" And then, after a few more words, he added solemnly, as he drew his tall form to its fullest height,... | |
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