The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal HamlinDerby & Jackson, 1860 - 354 pages |
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... institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that the pro- mulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to in- crease than abate its evils . " They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power ...
... institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that the pro- mulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to in- crease than abate its evils . " They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power ...
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... institution . everywhere . I do believe , if there is any place upon the globe which we inhabit , where a white man cannot work , he has no business there . If that place is fit only for black men to work , let black men alone work ...
... institution . everywhere . I do believe , if there is any place upon the globe which we inhabit , where a white man cannot work , he has no business there . If that place is fit only for black men to work , let black men alone work ...
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... institution which Gerry and his com- patriots detested . Will the members from Pennsyl- vania , the successors of Franklin and Wilson , lend their sanction to slavery , by voting the moneys of the People to pay for slaves ? 6 " But Mr ...
... institution which Gerry and his com- patriots detested . Will the members from Pennsyl- vania , the successors of Franklin and Wilson , lend their sanction to slavery , by voting the moneys of the People to pay for slaves ? 6 " But Mr ...
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... institution , to its extension into the territories , and was in favor of its abolition in the District of Colum- bia , but with compensation to the owner . He was for reform , but was a cautious , conservative reformer . On the 31st of ...
... institution , to its extension into the territories , and was in favor of its abolition in the District of Colum- bia , but with compensation to the owner . He was for reform , but was a cautious , conservative reformer . On the 31st of ...
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... institution of slavery in the States where it exists . Nevertheless , we hold that the government was instituted for ... institutions , our government should maintain its rights ; and we therefore demand the improvement of our harbors ...
... institution of slavery in the States where it exists . Nevertheless , we hold that the government was instituted for ... institutions , our government should maintain its rights ; and we therefore demand the improvement of our harbors ...
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Page 153 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 122 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 221 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 190 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 92 - 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.
Page 234 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 158 - James, for instance, — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even...
Page 221 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 309 - King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, was violated by Congress prohibiting slavery in federal territory; while Mr.
Page 315 - Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask— all Republicans desire— in relation to slavery. As those fathers marked it, so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers...