 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
 | Harold Barrett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1974 - 340 pages
...think, deserve to be remembered with some of the more frequently quoted passages from later speeches: If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws and constitutions against it are themselves wrong; if it is wrong they cannot justly insist upon its extensions - its enlargement. All they ask, we could... | |
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