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... South had hoped to extend the area of their institution - which had been won from Mexico for that special purpose ; and there was no slave state in read- iness to be admitted with it , in accordance with southern policy and ...
... South had hoped to extend the area of their institution - which had been won from Mexico for that special purpose ; and there was no slave state in read- iness to be admitted with it , in accordance with southern policy and ...
Page 140
... South Carolina and Maine . South Carolina has six representatives and so has Maine ; South Carolina has eight presidential electors and so has Maine . This is precise equality so far ; and of course they are equal in senators , each ...
... South Carolina and Maine . South Carolina has six representatives and so has Maine ; South Carolina has eight presidential electors and so has Maine . This is precise equality so far ; and of course they are equal in senators , each ...
Page 146
... South , every negro taken to Kansas is free ; and in utter disregard of this — in the spirit of violence merely — that beautiful legislature gravely passes a law to hang men who shall venture to inform a negro of his legal rights . This ...
... South , every negro taken to Kansas is free ; and in utter disregard of this — in the spirit of violence merely — that beautiful legislature gravely passes a law to hang men who shall venture to inform a negro of his legal rights . This ...
Page 148
... south of Mason's and Dixon's line . The slavery question was the great question . Opposition to the extension and encroach- ments of slavery was sectional , and any party which exer- cised this opposition , however broad its views might ...
... south of Mason's and Dixon's line . The slavery question was the great question . Opposition to the extension and encroach- ments of slavery was sectional , and any party which exer- cised this opposition , however broad its views might ...
Page 162
... South . " Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? " Let any one who doubts , carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination - piece of machinery , so to speak - com- pounded of the Nebraska doctrine , and the ...
... South . " Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? " Let any one who doubts , carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination - piece of machinery , so to speak - com- pounded of the Nebraska doctrine , and the ...
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Page 401 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Aimighty God.
Page 161 - 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 400 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 504 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 284 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 355 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 407 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 151 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 503 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 211 - 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 upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon...