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" I have all the while said, that on the territorial question — that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices — I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned... "
Charles Sumner - Page 196
by Moorfield Storey - 1900 - 466 pages
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 13; Volume 35

Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...by which the nation is to acquire territory, and then allow some local authority to spread slavery, is as obnoxious as any other. I take it that to effect...of all these proposed compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slavetrade among the slave-States, and whatever springs...
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History of the United States of America Under the Constitution: 1847-1861. [1891

James Schouler - United States - 1891 - 564 pages
...is as noxious as any other." * "I take it," he adds, " that to effect some such result as this and put us again on the high road to a slave empire, is the object of all these proposed compromises." But as to fugitive slaves, slavery at the capital, traffic among slave States and whatever else sprung...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 3

John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...compliance with what I had said to Judge Kellogg. I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question — that is, the question...of all these proposed compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slave trade among the slave States, and whatever springs...
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The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1859-1861 ...

Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 492 pages
...spread slavery, is as obnoxious as any other. I take it that to effect some such result as this, and put us again on the high road to a slave empire, is the object of all these compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves. District of Columbia, slave-trade among the slave...
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The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1859-1861 ...

Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1892 - 478 pages
...spread slavery, is as obnoxious as any other. I take it that to effect some such result as this, and put us again on the high road to a slave empire, is the object of all these compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slave-trade among the slave...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 1

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...as any other. I take it that to effect some such result as this, and to put us again on the highroad to a slave empire, is the object of all these proposed compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slave-trade among the slave States, and whatever springs...
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Complete Works, Volume 6

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 pages
...as any other. I take it that to effect some such result as this, and to put us again on the highroad to a slave empire, is the object of all these proposed compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slave-trade among the slave States, and whatever springs...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850...

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 686 pages
...Corwin offered. " I say now, however," he wrote Seward, February 1, "as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question — that is, the question...of all these proposed compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slave-trade among the slave States, and whatever springs...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final ...

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...Corwin offered. " I say now, however," he wrote Seward, February 1, " as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question — that is, the question...of all these proposed compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slave-trade among the slave States, and whatever springs...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, Volume 3

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 686 pages
...Corwin offered. " I say now, however," he wrote Seward, February 1, " as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question — that is, the question...of all these proposed compromises. I am against it. As to fugitive slaves, District of Columbia, slave-trade among the slave States, and whatever springs...
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