 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
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 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...ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking is right, and our thinking is wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. "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 your thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends... | |
 | Gary Jeffrey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 50 pages
...$UPPOZTEP$ СТАРТЕР TO PLAN HIS NOMINATION AS THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN CANPIPATE FOP. THE PM&PSNCY. SLAVERY IS RIGHT, ALL WORDS, ACTS, LAWS, AND CONSTITUTIONS...THEMSELVES WRONG, AND SHOULD BE SILENCED, AND SWEPT AWAY." ...THOMAS JEFFERSON SAID, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR US TO FREE THE SLAVES AND DEPORT THEM GRADUALLY, SO THE... | |
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