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Page 80
... principle to communities of men as well as to individuals . I so extend it because it is politically wise , as well as naturally just : politically wise in saving us from broils about matters which do not concern us . Here , or at ...
... principle to communities of men as well as to individuals . I so extend it because it is politically wise , as well as naturally just : politically wise in saving us from broils about matters which do not concern us . Here , or at ...
Page 82
... principles are an eternal antagonism , and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them , shocks and throes and convulsions must cease- lessly follow . Repeal the Missouri Compromise , repeal all compromises ...
... principles are an eternal antagonism , and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them , shocks and throes and convulsions must cease- lessly follow . Repeal the Missouri Compromise , repeal all compromises ...
Page 84
... principles of progress , and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw . " This is not the taunt of enemies , but the warning of friends . Is it quite safe to disregard it - to despise it ? Is there no danger to ...
... principles of progress , and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw . " This is not the taunt of enemies , but the warning of friends . Is it quite safe to disregard it - to despise it ? Is there no danger to ...
Page 89
... principle of law ever held by any court North or South , every negro taken to Kansas is free ; yet , in utter disregard of this , in the spirit of vio- lence merely , that beautiful legislature gravely passes a law to hang any man who ...
... principle of law ever held by any court North or South , every negro taken to Kansas is free ; yet , in utter disregard of this , in the spirit of vio- lence merely , that beautiful legislature gravely passes a law to hang any man who ...
Page 93
... principles and good men , and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones . He says the people did it . He forgets that the " people , " as he complacently calls only those who voted for Buchanan , are in a minority of the whole people by abcut ...
... principles and good men , and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones . He says the people did it . He forgets that the " people , " as he complacently calls only those who voted for Buchanan , are in a minority of the whole people by abcut ...
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