...no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of onr country believes Slavery is right and ought to be...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended ; and this is the only substantial dispute ; and the fugitive slave clause of the constitution, and...

...demanded, and that the conflict was not serious. He brought this argument to a climax when he said: "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." As a part of his strategy, Lincoln sought to establish common ground with southern countrymen through...

...Address, Lincoln asserted that slavery was the cause of the North-South conflict: "One section of the country believes slavery is right and ought to be...ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."2 Four years of bloody warfare served to strengthen Lincoln's conviction that the resolution...

...the ghost of Banquo at Macbeth's coronation feast. President-elect Lincoln admitted "one section nf our country believes slavery is right and ought to...ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."6 2 He foreswore abolition of slavery where positive law established it, but secessionists...

...sentences from Lincoln's inaugural address confirm this fact : "One section of our country believes that slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. That is the only substantial dispute." WHAT SETTLED THE SLAVERY QUESTION. The whole controversy was...

...administration. He reduced the dispute between the north and south to its simplest expression: "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended." On the question of compromise, Lincoln recognized the authority of the people to amend the Constitution,...

...them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right and...extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade...

...Paragraph 25) called "the only substantial dispute" dividing the North and the South: "One section of the country believes slavery is right, and ought to be...the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended."317 And, as I have indicated, many on both sides also believed that if slavery could not...

...them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right and...extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade...

...so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left One section of our country believes slavery is right and...be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. . . . Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each...