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Page 60
... treated as a wrong , and one of the methods of treating it as a wrong is to make provision that it shall grow no larger . They also desire a policy that looks to a peaceful end of slavery some time , as being a wrong . These are the ...
... treated as a wrong , and one of the methods of treating it as a wrong is to make provision that it shall grow no larger . They also desire a policy that looks to a peaceful end of slavery some time , as being a wrong . These are the ...
Page 61
... treating it as a wrong , and limiting its spread , let me say a word . Has anything ever threatened the existence of this Union save and except this very institution of slavery ? What is it that we hold most dear amongst us ? Our own ...
... treating it as a wrong , and limiting its spread , let me say a word . Has anything ever threatened the existence of this Union save and except this very institution of slavery ? What is it that we hold most dear amongst us ? Our own ...
Page 62
... treat it as indifferent , and do not say it is either right or wrong . These two classes of men fall within the general class of those who do not look upon it as a wrong . And if there be among you anybody who supposes that he , as a ...
... treat it as indifferent , and do not say it is either right or wrong . These two classes of men fall within the general class of those who do not look upon it as a wrong . And if there be among you anybody who supposes that he , as a ...
Page 66
... treat it as a wrong . Then there will soon be an end of it , and that end will be its " ultimate extinction . " Whenever the issue can be distinctly made , and all extraneous matter thrown out , so that men can fairly see the real dif ...
... treat it as a wrong . Then there will soon be an end of it , and that end will be its " ultimate extinction . " Whenever the issue can be distinctly made , and all extraneous matter thrown out , so that men can fairly see the real dif ...
Page 116
... treated as a wrong , not to let anything minor or subsidiary to that main principle and purpose make us fail to coöperate . One other thing , -and that again I say in no spirit of unkindness . There was a question amongst Republicans ...
... treated as a wrong , not to let anything minor or subsidiary to that main principle and purpose make us fail to coöperate . One other thing , -and that again I say in no spirit of unkindness . There was a question amongst Republicans ...
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Page 45 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 174 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 142 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 180 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 144 - ... only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife.
Page 294 - ... understood the question just as well, and even better than we do now." But enough. Let all who believe that " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it.
Page 35 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 364 - Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Page 144 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 287 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn, in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.