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
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...that they had encouraged John Brown. Lincoln precisely summarized the essential conflict over slavery: "If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality...justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement." But despite this seemingly insoluble dilemma, southerners, Lincoln insisted, had no right to secede.... | |
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...— as 1 suppose they will not — I would address a few words to the Southern people." He reasoned: "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... | |
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