If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist... Outlook and Independent - Page 2181916Full view - About this book
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...[Applause.] Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground, save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 266 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it rignt, and our thinking il wrong, is trie precise fact upon which depends the whole... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...justifiably withhold this, on any ground, save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery ia right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...conviction that Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against itt are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and...ask, we could readily grant, If we thought Slavery rigin ; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right,... | |
| Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension—its... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground, save bur conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions...should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we can not justly object to its nationality — its universality; if it is wrong, they can not justly... | |
| Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...it is right, we cannotjustly object to its nationality — ¡is universality ; if it is wrong, ihey cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement....grant, if we thought Slavery right ; all we ask, they couU as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong,... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. If tt is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality— iia universality ; If it is wrong, they... | |
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