 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...adopted ; but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights,...ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. But all this, to my judgment, furnishes no more excuse for permitting slavery to go into our own free... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...adopted; but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights,...ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. But all this, to my judgment, furnishes no more excuse for permitting slavery to go into our own free... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...adopted; but for their tardiness in this_, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. " When they remind us of their constitutional rights,...which should not, in its stringency, be more likely * This extract from Mr. Lincoln's Peoria speech of 1854, was read by him in the Ottawa debate, but... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...the Times or Piess and Tribune. It ie inserted now as necessary to a complete report of the debate. to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. " But all this, to my judgment, furnishes no more excuse for permitting slavery to go into our own... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...When they remind us of their Constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not greedily, but fully anil fairly; and I would give them any legislation for...more likely to carry a free man into Slavery, than oar ordinary criminal laws ore to hang an innocent one." In the face of this solid array of testimony,... | |
 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...adopted, but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights,...grudgingly, but fully and fairly ; and I would give them legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, which should not in its stringency bo more likely... | |
 | Robert Black - Slavery - 1861 - 156 pages
...adopted, but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights,...grudgingly, but fully and fairly ; and I would give them legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, which should not in its stringency be more likely... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...adopted ; but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren in the South. " When they remind us of their Constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not greedily, but fully and fairly ; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...adopted ; but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to jndge our brethren in the South. " When they remind us of their Constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not greedily, but fully and fairly ; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...be willing to give them a law for reclaiming fugitives, provided a law could be made which would not be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than...ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. This, notwithstanding he hated slavery for the monstrous injustice of slavery itself, and for its disgrace... | |
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When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them — not grudgingly, but fully and fairly; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free... 
