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... stitution and the laws of moral authority , " for the whole party on belief , and for myself on knowledge , I pro- nounce the charge an unmixed and unmitigated false- hood . Our government rests in public opinion . Whoever can change ...
... stitution and the laws of moral authority , " for the whole party on belief , and for myself on knowledge , I pro- nounce the charge an unmixed and unmitigated false- hood . Our government rests in public opinion . Whoever can change ...
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... Missouri . . . The Missouri court disregards the express provisions of an act of Congress and the Con- stitution of a sovereign State , both of which laws for ་ twenty - eight years it had not only regarded , 66 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... Missouri . . . The Missouri court disregards the express provisions of an act of Congress and the Con- stitution of a sovereign State , both of which laws for ་ twenty - eight years it had not only regarded , 66 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... stitution carries slavery to the Territories , it would by the same inevitable logic carry it into free States . But much more offensive to the Northern mind than his conclusions of law were the language and historical assertions by ...
... stitution carries slavery to the Territories , it would by the same inevitable logic carry it into free States . But much more offensive to the Northern mind than his conclusions of law were the language and historical assertions by ...
Page 76
... stitution a more liberal construction in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted . . . It is not only the same in words , but the same in meaning , and delegates the same powers to the ...
... stitution a more liberal construction in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted . . . It is not only the same in words , but the same in meaning , and delegates the same powers to the ...
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... stitution was made exclusively by the white race , and that it was made exclusively for the white race is in my opinion not only an assumption not warranted by any- thing in the Constitution , but contradicted by its open- ing ...
... stitution was made exclusively by the white race , and that it was made exclusively for the white race is in my opinion not only an assumption not warranted by any- thing in the Constitution , but contradicted by its open- ing ...
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Page 136 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 137 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, 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 183 - This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 150 - They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings.
Page 222 - ... free states ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored...
Page 149 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 89 - 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 138 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago, the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
Page 40 - That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.
Page 138 - ... common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes...