 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 530 pages
...thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...Can we cast our votes with their view and against onr own? In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities, can we do this? Wrong as we... | |
 | William Goodell Frost - 1891 - 50 pages
...and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of duty, we possibly can * * Thinking slavery right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...opposition to the further extension of slavery. As an institution, he did not oppose it, because " wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation, but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 568 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...being right ; but thinking it wrong as we do, can we j'ield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view and against our own '( In view of our moral,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them ? . . . Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...reappearing tyranny and oppression. Peroration of Address at Cooper Institute, February 27, 1860. RONG as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition, as being right; btit thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? . . . Wrong as we think slavery is, we can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will... | |
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All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all 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 the whole controversy. 
