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... every creature , let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature . Let us , then , turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the constitution originally placed it 22 Declaration of Independence.
... every creature , let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature . Let us , then , turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the constitution originally placed it 22 Declaration of Independence.
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... slaves of King George , and wanted to be free we called the maxim that “ all men are created equal " a self - evident truth ; but now when we have grown fat and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves , we have become so greedy to ...
... slaves of King George , and wanted to be free we called the maxim that “ all men are created equal " a self - evident truth ; but now when we have grown fat and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves , we have become so greedy to ...
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... offense cometh . " If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which , in the providence of God , must needs come , but which having continued through His appointed time , He now wills to remove and that He 29.
... offense cometh . " If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which , in the providence of God , must needs come , but which having continued through His appointed time , He now wills to remove and that He 29.
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... slaves or enslaving free men . Is it unreasonable then to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius , coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch , will at some time spring up among us ? And when such ...
... slaves or enslaving free men . Is it unreasonable then to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius , coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch , will at some time spring up among us ? And when such ...
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... slavery . If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel . 30 ( October 16 , 1854 , Speech at Peoria , Ill . - Howells , p . 286. ) Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature ...
... slavery . If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel . 30 ( October 16 , 1854 , Speech at Peoria , Ill . - Howells , p . 286. ) Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature ...
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Page 78 - I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 91 - At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 148 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Page 39 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 60 - 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 173 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 148 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 72 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 172 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 143 - 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 — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong : vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man ; such as a policy of