| Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...maintenance inviolate of the constitutional powers of Congress, and the rights of the States, aud esjiucjally d except on avote of two-thirds of both branches of Congress, inctitntions according to Its own judgment exclusively, la essential to the balance of power on which... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1913 - 236 pages
...recanted them.'' He then read a resolution adopted by the Convention which nominated him, declaring, "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...control its own domestic institutions according to its judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of... | |
| Daniel W. Crofts - History - 1993 - 540 pages
...of 1860 directly addressed southern concerns, advocating "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of States, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions," while condemning any "lawless invasion" of a state or territory "as among the gravest of crimes." Republican... | |
| English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...platform in the last contest was adopted at Chicago in 1860, and the fourth article was as follows : — ' The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.' Domestic... | |
| Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...involved "an unqualified property in persons"?35 Would he stand by the part of the platform which pledged "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively"?36 Was the belief that he had so often uttered representative of the true Lincoln: "A... | |
| Paul Finkelman - History - 2012 - 372 pages
...only nominated Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate but also passed a resolution declaring "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That... | |
| Social Science - 184 pages
....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...judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless... | |
| Charles W. Joyner - History - 1999 - 398 pages
...only nominated Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate but also passed a resolution declaring "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That... | |
| Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 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... | |
| Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...institutions. * id., p. 30. 4 The Fourth Resolution in the Republican Party platform of 1 860 declared That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...to order and control its own domestic institutions [especially slavery] according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power... | |
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