 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
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1910 - 894 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. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - Presidents - 1910 - 192 pages
...justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is rignt, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly ins1st upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery... | |
 | abraham lincoln - 1910 - 696 pages
...intense convictions is best shown by a brief extract from his Cooper Institute speech in New York : "If slavery Is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...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... | |
 | Joseph Fort Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Fort Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 650 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 664 pages
...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;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 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... | |
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