 | Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. Deblack, Morris S. Arnold - History - 2002 - 474 pages
...resistance to the extension of slavery. Its platform also denounced John Brown's raid and recognized the right of each state "to order and control its own domestic institutions." Lincoln had already struck a moderate tone, stating his view that slavery was "an evil, not to be extended,... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read. Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we... | |
 | Liquor laws - 2003 - 730 pages
...party affiliations, the people of Connecticut still hold, as Jefferson, and Lincoln after him held, "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend." These... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers - History - 2003 - 512 pages
...all schemes for disunion, come from whatever source they may"; the next plank held that "the rights of each State, to order and control its own domestic...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of her political faith depends." Slavery,... | |
 | Gerry Mackie - Business & Economics - 2003 - 508 pages
...implicit threat of secession.3 The Republican platform maintained inviolate the rights of the states, especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions; in other words, it guaranteed slavery in the slave states. The Republicans rejected the new dogma that... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant people sternly to rebuke and forever silence. 4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends ; and we... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
...the cry. In what is called the Chicago platform, Mr. Lincoln thus marks out his political creed: — "The maintenance inviolate of THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES,...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." The words... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: Resolved: that the maintenance incluíate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and contra! its own domestic institutions according to its own Judgment exclusively, is essential to that... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power of which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we... | |
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That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively... 
