 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...  Outlook and Independent - Page 2181916Full view - About this book
 | 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...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. ... It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace and in harmony,... | |
 | 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...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. . . . It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace and in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Elbert B. Smith - United States - 1975 - 252 pages
...social blessing," and Northerners could withhold this only on the conviction that slavery was wrong. "All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought...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 the whole... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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...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 the whole... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - History - 1982 - 466 pages
...justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, ah1 words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are...themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.10 If slavery is right, ah" words against it are wrong and should be silenced. But if slavery... | |
 | Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 1986 - 196 pages
...example, he discussed the morality of slavery, and indicated the centrality of the issue to the nation. "If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away."61! On the other hand if, as the Republicans believed, it is wrong, then, Lincoln suggests, the... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin, Art Kaufman - History - 1988 - 204 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...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 the whole... | |
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