...those fathers gave it, be, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly maintained. . . . All they (the South) ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. . . . It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace...

...against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we (the North) cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality; if it is wrong, they (the South) cannot justly insist upon Its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily...

...to the conscience of the nation. "If slavery," he said, "is right ... we cannot justly object to ita nationality — its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon ita extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right;...

...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our 30 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 5 fact upon which depends...

...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...

...think, deserve to be remembered with some of the more frequently quoted passages from later speeches: If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws and constitutions against it are themselves wrong; if it is wrong they cannot justly insist upon its extensions - its enlargement. All they ask, we could...

...social blessing," and Northerners could withhold this only on the conviction that slavery was wrong. "All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought...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...

...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...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...

...justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, ah1 words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are...themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.10 If slavery is right, ah" words against it are wrong and should be silenced. But if slavery...

...example, he discussed the morality of slavery, and indicated the centrality of the issue to the nation. "If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away."61! On the other hand if, as the Republicans believed, it is wrong, then, Lincoln suggests, the...