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If slavery is rignt , 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 ...
If slavery is rignt , 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 ...
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Page 137 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it.
Page 140 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 46 - 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 30 - 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 134 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Page 124 - If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from Federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the Federal Territories...
Page 124 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Page 140 - 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 gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of...
Page 133 - ... 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, Is essential to that balance of...
Page 137 - I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution — which amendment, however, I have not seen — has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said...
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| Title | Portrait Life of Lincoln: Life of Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American |
| Authors | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Edward Bailey Eaton |
| Publisher | Patriot Publishing Company, 1910 |
| Length | 162 pages |
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