 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 211by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 410 pages
...return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our free-state Constitutions. ... If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot object to its nationality, its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any gronnd save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...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 which depends... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 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...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 which depends... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 460 pages
...mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!" If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...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 which depends... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 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...should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we can not justly object to its naf tionality—its universality, if, it is wrong, they can not justly... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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...thought slavery right ; all we ask they could as readily i grant if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it V right and our thinking it wrong is the precise... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...158 18 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...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 which depends... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — itsenlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right ; all we ask they... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...treatment of all sides of the central controversy, it had such unity that one idea dominated the whole : " All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." To support duty was the straight road ; " then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...treatment of all sides of the central controversy, it had such unity that one idea dominated the whole: " All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." To support duty was the straight road; " then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively."... | |
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