 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1866 - 314 Seiten
...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, / wnuld rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it" — and his last words... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 574 Seiten
...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, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 764 Seiten
...question uttered words which sound prophetical 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... | |
 | 1867 - 912 Seiten
...not alone to the people of this country, but to the world in all future time. If the country can not be saved without giving up that principle, I would rather be assassinated on the spot than surrender it. I have said nothing but what I am willing to live and die by." This is... | |
 | 1867 - 796 Seiten
...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, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now. in my view of... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 Seiten
...question tittered words which sound prophetical 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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 Seiten
...world if I can help 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... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 Seiten
...Philadelphia, alluding to the principle of the Declaration of Independence, he said : " If this country can not be saved without giving up that principle, I would rather be assassinated on the spot than to surrender it." " I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the... | |
 | 1868 - 796 Seiten
...world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. Bat 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... | |
 | 1927 - 976 Seiten
...shoulders of all men. This is the sentiment of the Declaration. Can this country be saved on that basis? If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I would rather be assassinated than surrender it." "Lifting the weights from the shoulders of all men." How like the master of 1801!... | |
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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 Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. 
