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
| Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withold 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 on which depends the... | |
| John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1906 - 612 pages
...justifiably withhold this on any ground, save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If sjavery is_right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and" should tie silenced and swept away. TFIFls right, we cannot justly object : "f6~rfs~nali6rialffy— ifs" "universality... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 458 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 404 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 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 \ v , it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise l--"•7\ fact upon... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 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...justly object to its nationality — its universality; 3 it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1908 - 482 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...if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could aa readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the... | |
| Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 pages
...courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the na- f tion. STAND BY DUTY. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...could readily grant, if we thought slavery right. * * If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. *... | |
| Samuel R. Artman - Liquor industry - 1908 - 304 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...should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we can not justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they can not justly insist... | |
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