 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1906 - 536 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break...surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the others. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break-...slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be urrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1032 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases and a few break...in each. This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured; aud it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before. The foreign slave... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break...separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction, in one section;... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - Performing Arts - 2001 - 1286 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break...separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would 25 be ultimately revived without restriction in one... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break...separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction, in one section;... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - Law - 1992 - 296 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break...think, cannot be perfectly cured; and it would be wotse in both cases after the separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break...separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction, in one section;... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break...surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other." Lincoln, Collected Works, 4: 268-69 (1861). See Chap. 12 of this Collection. "One eighth of the whole... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, can not be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections... | |
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Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great... 
