 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded. We can not, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. But... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...-which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. But... | |
 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...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
...well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...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
...power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...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,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...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... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 462 pages
...well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them our equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...undertake to judge our brethren of the South.' When, therefore, Southerners heard slavery denounced in the violent terms used by a portion of the Republican... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. " But... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the south." Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, p. 74. the legislature; but the split which the slavery question... | |
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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... 
