 ... 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 upon its...  Publication of the American Sociological Society - Page 117by American Sociological Association - 1910Full view - About this book
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...And this must be done thoroughly — done in acts as well as in words." The South thinking slavery right and " our thinking it wrong is the precise fact...being right ; but thinking it wrong as we do, can we j'ield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view and against our own '( In view of our moral,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 pages
...nationality, its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension, its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...for desiring its full recognition, as being right; btit thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? . . . Wrong as we think slavery is, we can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if they thought slavery . right; all we ask they could readily grant, if they thought' it wrong. Their thinking...controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to tlame for desiring its full recognition, as being right; but thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right ; all we ask they could as readily i grant if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it V right and our thinking it wrong is the precise... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...treatment of all sides of the central controversy, it had such unity that one idea dominated the whole: " All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." To support duty was the straight road; " then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively."... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...treatment of all sides of the central controversy, it had such unity that one idea dominated the whole : " All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." To support duty was the straight road ; " then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively."... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...had such unity that one idea dominated the whok ' " All they ask we could readily grant, if wt *-* f thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." To support duty was the straight road; " then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively."... | |
 | McLean County Historical Society (McLean County, Ill.) - Bloomington (Ill.) - 1900 - 194 pages
...universality; if it is wrong, they, (the south) cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant if we thought...precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. * * * Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...nationality,—its universality. If it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension,—its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. . . . Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...its universality! If it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. . . . Wrong as we think slavery is we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much... | |
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