Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including the Lincoln-Douglas DebateMoffat, Yard, 1911 - 110 pages |
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... morality and policy of slavery generally , it would appear to us that on the direct question of Federal con- trol of slavery in Federal Territories , the six- teen , if they had acted at all , would probably have acted just as the ...
... morality and policy of slavery generally , it would appear to us that on the direct question of Federal con- trol of slavery in Federal Territories , the six- teen , if they had acted at all , would probably have acted just as the ...
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... morally right and socially elevating , they cannot cease to demand a full national recog- nition of it as a legal right and a social blessing . Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong ...
... morally right and socially elevating , they cannot cease to demand a full national recog- nition of it as a legal right and a social blessing . Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong ...
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... moral , social , and political responsi- bilities , can we do this ? Wrong as we think slavery is , we can yet afford to let it alone where it is , because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ...
... moral , social , and political responsi- bilities , can we do this ? Wrong as we think slavery is , we can yet afford to let it alone where it is , because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ...
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... moral point of view , justify revolution ; it certainly would if such right were a vital one . But such is not our case . All the vital rights of minorities and of individu- als are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and ...
... moral point of view , justify revolution ; it certainly would if such right were a vital one . But such is not our case . All the vital rights of minorities and of individu- als are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and ...
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... moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself . The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases , and a few break over in each . This , I think , cannot be perfectly cured , and it would be ...
... moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself . The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases , and a few break over in each . This , I think , cannot be perfectly cured , and it would be ...
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Page 102 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 55 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 51 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 58 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States...
Page 24 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Page 88 - 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 73 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. 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...
Page 43 - No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? The Constitution does not expressly say.
Page 44 - ... be controlled by such a minority. For instance, why not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it?
Page 27 - Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.