 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 Gerring - Philosophy - 2001 - 354 pages
...1896: 100). early in 1860 - one of only two major public addresses he gave in that climactic year: 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... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...they cannot cease to demand full national recognition of it, as a legal right, and social blessing. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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... | |
 | Peter Dennis Bathory, Nancy Lynn Schwartz - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 340 pages
...at some level, reach certainty and universality. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and the constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and...justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. . . . LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE DO OUR... | |
 | Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray - History - 2001 - 270 pages
...we are sectional," he stated bluntly. "We deny it." Slavery, not sectionalism, divided the nation. "All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right," Lincoln argued; "all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking... | |
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