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... exists there even now . By every principle of law , a negro in Kansas is free ; yet the bogus legislature makes it an infamous crime to tell him that he is free ! 7. The party lash and the fear of ridicule will over- awe justice and ...
... exists there even now . By every principle of law , a negro in Kansas is free ; yet the bogus legislature makes it an infamous crime to tell him that he is free ! 7. The party lash and the fear of ridicule will over- awe justice and ...
Page 38
... exist after the year 1800. Had this report been adopted , not only the Northwest , but Kentucky , Tennessee , Alabama , and Mississippi also would have been free ; but it required the assent of nine states to ratify it . North Carolina ...
... exist after the year 1800. Had this report been adopted , not only the Northwest , but Kentucky , Tennessee , Alabama , and Mississippi also would have been free ; but it required the assent of nine states to ratify it . North Carolina ...
Page 43
... exist in the slave States - not because slavery is right or good , but from the ne- cessities of our Union . We grant a fugitive - slave law because it is so " nominated in the bond " ; because our fathers so stipulated — had to and we ...
... exist in the slave States - not because slavery is right or good , but from the ne- cessities of our Union . We grant a fugitive - slave law because it is so " nominated in the bond " ; because our fathers so stipulated — had to and we ...
Page 47
... exists in Texas to - day ? By the same right as , and no higher or greater than , slavery is seek- ing dominion in Kansas : by political force peaceful , if that will suffice ; by the torch ( as in Kansas ) 1 and the bludgeon ( as in ...
... exists in Texas to - day ? By the same right as , and no higher or greater than , slavery is seek- ing dominion in Kansas : by political force peaceful , if that will suffice ; by the torch ( as in Kansas ) 1 and the bludgeon ( as in ...
Page 65
... exists ; to prohibit the admission of any more slave States into the Union ; to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia ; to exclude slavery from all the Territories over which the general government has exclusive jurisdiction ; and ...
... exists ; to prohibit the admission of any more slave States into the Union ; to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia ; to exclude slavery from all the Territories over which the general government has exclusive jurisdiction ; and ...
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Page 216 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 191 - ... in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 93 - 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 170 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 160 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 149 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 162 - I deem it better to forego, for the time, the uses of such offices. The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union. So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection. The course here indicated will be followed, unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper...
Page 166 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 166 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 81 - 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.