 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 - 386 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 - 292 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... | |
 | Percy MacKaye - Drama - 1909 - 210 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 - 162 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
...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, Everett Cherrington Hughes - Electronic journals - 1910
...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 - 164 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
...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 - 1910 - 367 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... | |
 | Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 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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