 If slavery is right, 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 211by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 414 pages
...style in which most of his later public documents were written. " If slavery is right," he said, " all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - United States - 1909 - 330 pages
...(37) Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension—its... | |
 | Paul Selby - Slavery - 1909 - 40 pages
...Institute, he put the question of the constitutional rights of slavery in the following logical form : "If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws and constitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality; if it... | |
 | Percy MacKaye - Drama - 1909 - 236 pages
...that which Lincoln made to the champions of serfdom in the republic, — • "All they ask we could as readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." The issue is clear : Is commercial bondage of a nation's art to be considered right or wrong... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Edward Bailey Eaton - Presidents - 1910 - 188 pages
...justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery' is rignt, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends... | |
 | American Sociological Association - Sociology - 1910 - 622 pages
...blessing nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1910 - 894 pages
...blessing nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - Presidents - 1910 - 192 pages
...justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is rignt, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly ins1st upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery... | |
 | abraham lincoln - 1910 - 696 pages
...intense convictions is best shown by a brief extract from his Cooper Institute speech in New York : "If slavery Is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we (the North) cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality; if it is wrong, they (the... | |
 | Joseph Fort Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 416 pages
...those fathers gave it, be, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly maintained. . . . All they (the South) ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. ... It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace... | |
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