 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 330 pages
...We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might he adopted ; but for their tardiness in this I will not...reclaiming of their fugitives which should not, in its striagency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot then make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. 30 When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them — • not grudgingly, but... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 336 pages
...well- or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. u When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not grudgingly, but fully... | |
 | Hilary Abner Herbert - Antislavery movements - 1912 - 280 pages
...politically and socially our equals?" This question he answered in the negative, and continued: "It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted, but for their tardiness I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South." In these extracts from his speeches we find... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 478 pages
...read a portion of his speech at Peoria, in 1854, in which he had said: "When our brethren of the South remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge...which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. ' ' V—... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 660 pages
...whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot then make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. Our Republican robe is soiled — trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it. Let us turn and wash it... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Literature - 1917 - 404 pages
...whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot then make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which An Evening with Lincoln 327 should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 354 pages
...conflicting and confusing calls to action which rang out upon the air, his familiar voice was heard saying: "When they remind us of their constitutional rights,...which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one." 8 At... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 704 pages
...conflicting and confusing calls to action which rang out upon the air, his familiar voice was heard saying: "When they remind us of their constitutional rights,...which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one." 8 At... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 252 pages
...whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. "But... | |
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When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, -which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a... 
